user account suspension wants 'user password' reset too

Bug #697492 reported by Steve McInerney
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
High
William Grant

Bug Description

A recent change requires that setting a spamming account to suspend, requires forcibly (re)setting their password as well.

This is unnecessary and time consuming. And irritating. :-)

+reviewaccount
set to suspend
update comments as to why
click change
get a Go Away message - need to set password (as well)
generate a random password
now successfully suspend the account.

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Steve McInerney (spm)
tags: added: canonical-losa-lp
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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

I am not prompted for a password when I use +reviewaccount.

PS. The password is rubbish. Launchpad does not use passwords.

tags: added: merge-deactivate users
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: tech-debt
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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

I actually do not care about this use case, per my comment, Lp does not use passwords. Why can anyone see them let alone change them? I am changing the bug to remove password from the UI. Maybe even drop the column

summary: - can no longer suspend a spammer UNLESS you reset the password as well
+ Remove password because it is not used
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 697492] Re: can no longer suspend a spammer UNLESS you reset the password as well

I think we use passwords in the test suite; I agree we should get rid of them.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

Curtis, see bug 644105 for removing password entirely. Steve's use case is that suspending a user account should be real-easy. This is much easier than removing passwords.

Changed in launchpad:
importance: Low → High
summary: - Remove password because it is not used
+ user account suspension wants 'user password' reset too
tags: added: easy
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → William Grant (wgrant)
status: Triaged → In Progress
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Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
William Grant (wgrant)
tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: disclosure sharing
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