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This section guides you through setting up password recovery for users to recover a lost or forgotten password. There are two methods of password recovery:

From 5.3.0 onwards there is a new implementation for identity management features. The steps given below in this document follows the new implemenation which is the recommended approach for password recovery.

Alternatively, to see steps on how to enable this identity management feature using the old implementation, see Password Recovery documentation in WSO2 IS 5.2.0. The old implementation has been retained within the WSO2 IS pack for backward compatitbility and can still be used if required.

Recovery using notifications

WSO2 Identity Server supports password recovery using email-based notifications. The flow of this method is as follows:

  • The user initiates the password recovery flow by clicking on "Forgot Password" at the point of login. 
  • The user enters the username and selects Recovery with Email.
  • An email is sent to the user with a URL which directs the user to a screen where he/she can enter a new password. 

Follow the steps given below to set up and try out password recovery with email notification. 

Before you begin

Ensure that the "IdentityMgtEventListener" with the orderId=50 is set to false and that the Identity Listeners with orderId=95  and orderId=97 are set to true in the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf/identity/identity.xml file. 

<EventListener type="org.wso2.carbon.user.core.listener.UserOperationEventListener" name="org.wso2.carbon.identity.mgt.IdentityMgtEventListener" orderId="50" enable="false"/>
<EventListener type="org.wso2.carbon.user.core.listener.UserOperationEventListener" name="org.wso2.carbon.identity.governance.listener.IdentityMgtEventListener" orderId="95" enable="true" />
<EventListener type="org.wso2.carbon.user.core.listener.UserOperationEventListener" name="org.wso2.carbon.identity.governance.listener.IdentityStoreEventListener" orderId="97" enable="true">
  1. Configure the following email settings in the <IS_HOME>/repository/conf/output-event-adapters.xml file. 
    The email address configured here is the email account that will be used to send password recovery email notifications to users. 

    <adapterConfig type="email">
        <!-- Comment mail.smtp.user and mail.smtp.password properties to support connecting SMTP servers which use trust
            based authentication rather username/password authentication -->
        <property key="mail.smtp.from">abcd@gmail.com</property>
        <property key="mail.smtp.user">abcd</property>
        <property key="mail.smtp.password">xxxx</property>
        <property key="mail.smtp.host">smtp.gmail.com</property>
        <property key="mail.smtp.port">587</property>
        <property key="mail.smtp.starttls.enable">true</property>
        <property key="mail.smtp.auth">true</property>
        <!-- Thread Pool Related Properties -->
        <property key="minThread">8</property>
        <property key="maxThread">100</property>
        <property key="keepAliveTimeInMillis">20000</property>
        <property key="jobQueueSize">10000</property>
    </adapterConfig>

    Tip: The email template used to send this email notification is the PasswordReset template.

    You can edit and customize the email template. For more information on how to do this, see Customizing Automated Emails.

  2. Start the WSO2 Identity Server and log in to the management console.
  3. Click on Resident found under the Identity Providers section on the Main tab of the management console.
  4. Expand the Account Management Policies tab and then the Account Recovery tab.

  5. Select the Enable Notification Based Password Recovery checkbox. 
    For more information on the fields seen on this screen, see Account Recovery REST API

    To enable password recovery with reCaptcha verification, select the  Enable reCaptcha for Password Recovery  checkbox.  For more information, see Configuring reCaptcha for Password Recovery.

  6. To enable sending a confirmation email to the user's registered email address after the password reset, select the Notify when Recovery Success checkbox. 

    Tip: The email template used to send the confirmation email notification is the passwordResetSuccess template.

    You can edit and customize the email template. For more information on how to do this, see Customizing Automated Emails.

  7. Update the Recovery callback URL regex with a relevant one.

    The recommended Recovery callback URL regex to use when testing the product is ^https:\/\/localhost:9443\/.*. However, users should modify it to meet their requirements when they deploy the product.

If you are using a Google mail account, note that Google has restricted third-party apps and less secure apps from sending emails by default. Therefore, you need to configure your account to disable this restriction, as WSO2 IS acts as a third-party application when sending emails to confirm user registrations or notification for password reset WSO2 IS.

 Click here for more information.

Follow the steps given below to enable your Google mail account to provide access to third-party applications.

  1. Navigate to https://myaccount.google.com/security.
  2. Click Signing in to Google on the left menu and make sure that the 2-step Verification is disabled or off.
  3. Click Connected apps and sites on the left menu and enable Allow less secure apps.

Try out recovery using notification

  1. Create a user using the management console. Ensure that the user has login permissions. 
  2. Edit the user profile and enter an email address for the user. The email notification for password recovery is sent to the email address given. 
  3. Access the WSO2 Identity Server dashboard using the following link: https://localhost:<port_number>/dashboard.
  4. Click the Forgot Password link. 
  5. Enter the user's username and select Recover with Email. Click Submit

    In case you have enabled password recovery with  reCaptcha verification , enter the required fields as specified above and select the recaptcha checkbox as well.

  6. An email notification is sent to the user's email address. Click on the Reset Password button given on the email. 
  7. Enter a new password and click Submit

For information on the REST APIs for password recovery, see the swagger docs on Account Recovery REST APIs.

Recovery using challenge questions

The WSO2 Identity Server provides an alternative means of recovering passwords. This is by using challenge questions. If users forget their password, they can recover it by answering challenge questions that were set up for their accounts.

Before setting this up, you must configure the required claims for this feature. To do this, do the following.

  1. Enter your username and password to log on to the Management Console.
  2. Click on Resident found under the Identity Providers section on the Main tab of the Management Console.
  3. Expand the Account Management Policies tab, then the Account Recovery tab and select the Enable the Security Questions Based Password Recovery checkbox. 
  4. Configure the required number of questions in the Number of Questions Required for Password Recovery
    Optionally, select the Notify when Questions Based Recovery Starts checkbox to send an email notification to the user when the question based recovery starts. 

    You can also select the Enable reCaptcha for Password Recovery checkbox to enable password recovery with reCaptcha verification. For more information, see Configuring reCaptcha for Password Recovery.

You can set up challenge questions for users in one of the following ways: 

Using the management console

To set up challenge questions or to manage the questions with different locales (languages), see Managing Challenge Questions

Using the end user dashboard

To try this out, first create a user in the Identity Server.

  1. On the Main tab in the Management Console, click Add under Users and Roles.
  2. Click Users. This link is only visible to users with the Admin role. 
  3. Click Add New User.

  4. Log out of the Identity Server.
  5. The URL for accessing dashboard is the following if the hostname is localhost and the Identity Server is running on port 9443: https://localhost:9443/dashboard/. Click this link to access the dashboard and log in using the credentials of the user you just created.

  6. Click the View Details button under the Account Recovery section in the end user dashboard.
     
  7. Set challenge questions for the user account. There are two sets of challenge questions by default. You can pick one question for each set and give an answer for the question.

  8. Click Update.
  9. Sign out of the dashboard and click Forgot Password on the login screen. 
  10. Enter the username and select Recover with Security Questions. Click Submit

    Tip: If you have configured WSO2 IS to use email address as the username, enter the username in the format of "john@foo.com". If the user is in the super tenant, this is in the format of "john@foo.com@carbon.super". If the user is in the tenant bar.com, the format you must enter is "john@foo.com@bar.com".

    In case you have enabled password recovery with  reCaptcha verification , enter the required fields as specified above and select the recaptcha checkbox as well.



  11. Enter the answers to the challenge questions and click Submit
  12. Enter a new password and click Submit. You will receive a notification of successful password reset.


For information on the REST APIs for password recovery using challenge questions, see the swagger docs on Account Recovery REST APIs.

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