Proposal:

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Account activation via email

Abstract

This is a proposal to support E-mail Account Activation Account activation via email in Roller. If activation is enabled, then user accounts must be activated via e-mail before they can be used.

Requirements

• Support e-mail activation of new user accounts
• E-mail message must be I18N/localizable
• E-mail activation must be optional

Issues

No major issues to be considered.

Design

List and describe new manager methods, Struts actions, JSP pages, macros, etc.

• New runtime properties with these defaults:
  • user.account.activation.enabled=truefalse
  • user.account.activation.code.length=128
  • user.account.activation.code.generation.retry=3
  • user.account.activation.mail.from=activate@localhost
• Code in UserNewAction.java to send activation email
• New persistent POJO UserActivationData
• Code in UserManager implementations to store/retrieve new POJO
• New table: useractivate

create table useractivate (
id varchar(48) not null primary key,
username varchar(255) not null,
activationcode varchar(255) not null
);

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• New field in UserData object and corresponding rolleruser table:

  Code Block
  activationcode varchar(48)

• New method un UserManager to retrieve user via activation code:

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  public UserData getUserByActivationCode(String activationCode) throws RollerException;

• Code in UserNewAction.java to generate & store activation code and send email

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