OpenMRS 2.3 user acceptance testing: We need your help!

[darius (Darius Jazayeri)]

I’d like to highlight this thread that @arbaughj created (over the weekend I think) based on this testing:

How can an Admin Change a User's Password?

In a real-life scenario, users tend to forget their passwords, and contact the admin to help reset them. It appears the policy in OpenMRS 2.3 is for the admin to NOT be able to set a user’s password, beyond the initial account creation. See the discussion the developers had about this here… https://talk.openmrs.org/t/unable-to-update-user-password-via-rest/2959/4 What is the proper workflow for changing a user’s password when they forget it? The user can’t change their password, unless they k…

Based on discussing that thread on talk we should quickly decide between:

• Release “now” anyway, and fix this in a followup module release
• (Burke and Wyclif lean this way since there’s the workaround of using the legacy UI)
• Block the release until we decide how to address this