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, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/server/middlewares/validators/users.ts b/server/middlewares/validators/users.ts
index 5d52b5804..adc67a046 100644
--- a/server/middlewares/validators/users.ts
+++ b/server/middlewares/validators/users.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
   isUserDisplayNameValid,
   isUserNSFWPolicyValid,
   isUserPasswordValid,
+  isUserPasswordValidOrEmpty,
   isUserRoleValid,
   isUserUsernameValid,
   isUserVideoLanguages,
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ import { Hooks } from '@server/lib/plugins/hooks'
 
 const usersAddValidator = [
   body('username').custom(isUserUsernameValid).withMessage('Should have a valid username (lowercase alphanumeric characters)'),
-  body('password').custom(isUserPasswordValid).withMessage('Should have a valid password'),
+  body('password').custom(isUserPasswordValidOrEmpty).withMessage('Should have a valid password'),
   body('email').isEmail().withMessage('Should have a valid email'),
   body('videoQuota').custom(isUserVideoQuotaValid).withMessage('Should have a valid user quota'),
   body('videoQuotaDaily').custom(isUserVideoQuotaDailyValid).withMessage('Should have a valid daily user quota'),