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, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/server/lib/redis.ts b/server/lib/redis.ts
index 0c5dbdd3e..b4cd6f8e7 100644
--- a/server/lib/redis.ts
+++ b/server/lib/redis.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   CONTACT_FORM_LIFETIME,
   USER_EMAIL_VERIFY_LIFETIME,
   USER_PASSWORD_RESET_LIFETIME,
+  USER_PASSWORD_CREATE_LIFETIME,
   VIDEO_VIEW_LIFETIME,
   WEBSERVER
 } from '../initializers/constants'
@@ -74,6 +75,14 @@ class Redis {
     return generatedString
   }
 
+  async setCreatePasswordVerificationString (userId: number) {
+    const generatedString = await generateRandomString(32)
+
+    await this.setValue(this.generateResetPasswordKey(userId), generatedString, USER_PASSWORD_CREATE_LIFETIME)
+
+    return generatedString
+  }
+
   async getResetPasswordLink (userId: number) {
     return this.getValue(this.generateResetPasswordKey(userId))
   }