Pre Registration and Single Passwords

Hello all,

I’m new to Rails and have been learning for a couple months now. I am building a simple application that will be used internally by a 20 people within an organization.

In the first instance they will need to sign up with their email address.

When the app is ready to go live with full features, they will receive an email providing them with the password to log in. What is important to note is that all 20 users will be using the same password. The password is to be set at a later date.

I would appreciate any advice on how best to do this without them having to select the password in the pre-registration phase.

I will be using Action Mailer and have also come across the Lock Gem but it would be really helpful to talk through a few solutions.

Thanks,

Branden

Hello all,

I'm new to Rails and have been learning for a couple months now. I am building a simple application that will be used internally by a 20 people within an organization.

In the first instance they will need to sign up with their email address.

When the app is ready to go live with full features, they will receive an email providing them with the password to log in. What is important to note is that all 20 users will be using the same password. The password is to be set at a later date.

Is there a compelling business reason for this? Is there any real security at all needed or desired in this site? If they are all peers, and they know that it's a single password, and they are all peers -- so they know each other's e-mail address -- and they are all peers -- so they may be human and want to prank one another, or spy on one another, or worse. Do you see what I'm saying here? Do I have to mention again that they are all peers?

Walter