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, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/server/helpers/custom-validators/users.ts b/server/helpers/custom-validators/users.ts
index b4d5751e7..63673bee2 100644
--- a/server/helpers/custom-validators/users.ts
+++ b/server/helpers/custom-validators/users.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { UserRole } from '../../../shared'
 import { CONSTRAINTS_FIELDS, NSFW_POLICY_TYPES } from '../../initializers/constants'
 import { exists, isArray, isBooleanValid, isFileValid } from './misc'
 import { values } from 'lodash'
+import { CONFIG } from '../../initializers/config'
 
 const USERS_CONSTRAINTS_FIELDS = CONSTRAINTS_FIELDS.USERS
 
@@ -10,6 +11,14 @@ function isUserPasswordValid (value: string) {
   return validator.isLength(value, USERS_CONSTRAINTS_FIELDS.PASSWORD)
 }
 
+function isUserPasswordValidOrEmpty (value: string) {
+  // Empty password is only possible if emailing is enabled.
+  if (value === '') {
+    return !!CONFIG.SMTP.HOSTNAME && !!CONFIG.SMTP.PORT
+  }
+  return isUserPasswordValid(value)
+}
+
 function isUserVideoQuotaValid (value: string) {
   return exists(value) && validator.isInt(value + '', USERS_CONSTRAINTS_FIELDS.VIDEO_QUOTA)
 }
@@ -103,6 +112,7 @@ export {
   isUserVideosHistoryEnabledValid,
   isUserBlockedValid,
   isUserPasswordValid,
+  isUserPasswordValidOrEmpty,
   isUserVideoLanguages,
   isUserBlockedReasonValid,
   isUserRoleValid,