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Do not send passwords in cleartext to admin email
When you add a new user, it sends their password to the admin email in plain text. Email is not a secure information transport and can not be trusted with that kind of information. This is a major sec...
Three and a half years after the original post, notifications about new user accounts still get sent in clear text!
This is an absurd security breach, which has no justification.
It should be disabled by default - is there at least a way to manually disable this behavior?
Tuvik
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