Creating a user with an empty password will send an email to let him set his password (#2479)

* Creating a user with an empty password will send an email to let him set his password

* Consideration of Chocobozzz's comments

* Tips for optional password

* API documentation

* Fix circular imports

* Tests

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/client/src/app/+admin/users/user-edit/user-create.component.ts b/client/src/app/+admin/users/user-edit/user-create.component.ts
index e726ec4d7..1769c0de0 100644
--- a/client/src/app/+admin/users/user-edit/user-create.component.ts
+++ b/client/src/app/+admin/users/user-edit/user-create.component.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core'
-import { Router } from '@angular/router'
+import { Router, ActivatedRoute } from '@angular/router'
 import { AuthService, Notifier, ServerService } from '@app/core'
 import { UserCreate, UserRole } from '../../../../../../shared'
 import { UserEdit } from './user-edit'
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export class UserCreateComponent extends UserEdit implements OnInit {
     protected configService: ConfigService,
     protected auth: AuthService,
     private userValidatorsService: UserValidatorsService,
+    private route: ActivatedRoute,
     private router: Router,
     private notifier: Notifier,
     private userService: UserService,
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ export class UserCreateComponent extends UserEdit implements OnInit {
     this.buildForm({
       username: this.userValidatorsService.USER_USERNAME,
       email: this.userValidatorsService.USER_EMAIL,
-      password: this.userValidatorsService.USER_PASSWORD,
+      password: this.isPasswordOptional() ? this.userValidatorsService.USER_PASSWORD_OPTIONAL : this.userValidatorsService.USER_PASSWORD,
       role: this.userValidatorsService.USER_ROLE,
       videoQuota: this.userValidatorsService.USER_VIDEO_QUOTA,
       videoQuotaDaily: this.userValidatorsService.USER_VIDEO_QUOTA_DAILY,
@@ -78,6 +79,11 @@ export class UserCreateComponent extends UserEdit implements OnInit {
     return true
   }
 
+  isPasswordOptional () {
+    const serverConfig = this.route.snapshot.data.serverConfig
+    return serverConfig.email.enabled
+  }
+
   getFormButtonTitle () {
     return this.i18n('Create user')
   }