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by hadcomplained 2207 days ago
Instead of providing a temporary password, can't that service just give a user the session information that is sent to the server via cookies?
1 comments

Well that is clever.

Well lets see if it works ... I created this user overlookedscrum with a weak enough password, but you don't know it so you can't reset it.

This is the cookie ~

key: user

value: overlookedscrum&DtTI0rbgf7YKKL0Xgy65I4cJFAi962sH

I tried it with two different browsers. It seems I can login freely, but can you ?

I'll say ping below.