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

2 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/server/lib/emailer.ts b/server/lib/emailer.ts
index 9ce6186b1..0f74d2a8c 100644
--- a/server/lib/emailer.ts
+++ b/server/lib/emailer.ts
@@ -384,6 +384,22 @@ class Emailer {
     return JobQueue.Instance.createJob({ type: 'email', payload: emailPayload })
   }
 
+  addPasswordCreateEmailJob (username: string, to: string, resetPasswordUrl: string) {
+    const text = 'Hi,\n\n' +
+      `Welcome to your ${WEBSERVER.HOST} PeerTube instance. Your username is: ${username}.\n\n` +
+      `Please set your password by following this link: ${resetPasswordUrl} (this link will expire within seven days).\n\n` +
+      'Cheers,\n' +
+      `${CONFIG.EMAIL.BODY.SIGNATURE}`
+
+    const emailPayload: EmailPayload = {
+      to: [ to ],
+      subject: CONFIG.EMAIL.SUBJECT.PREFIX + 'New PeerTube account password',
+      text
+    }
+
+    return JobQueue.Instance.createJob({ type: 'email', payload: emailPayload })
+  }
+
   addVerifyEmailJob (to: string, verifyEmailUrl: string) {
     const text = 'Welcome to PeerTube,\n\n' +
       `To start using PeerTube on ${WEBSERVER.HOST} you must  verify your email! ` +
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))
   }