How to create a password for a member logged in via Facebook? i.e. no password set

Question

I have a scenario where I am using Solspace's Facebook Connect to allow users to become a member and login to a website.

I would like to give the user the ability to create a password on their profile page so they can login the traditional way.

I have experimented with Freemember and User and both require a current password to update/create a new password.

In my research I saw a suggestion to use free member's reset password functionality which would work but is inconvenient to the user (submit email, check email, click link, create password) so am looking for something better.

My guess is because it is part of EE's native functionality to supply current password when updating a user's password (even for a super admin), that this might be an impossibility.

Can anyone help? Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Yeah, you're pretty much down to writing your own add-on which accepts the new password, then manually updates it. The core of the logic would like like this (after someone submitted your custom form):

if(ee()->input->post('password') == ee()->input->post('password_confirm'))
{
    ee()->load->library('auth');
    ee()->auth->update_password(
        ee()->session->userdata('member_id'),
        ee()->input->post('password')
    );
    // Redirect them or whatever
}
else
{
    ee()->output->show_user_error('submission', 'Your passwords must match!');
}

Answer 2

I found a solution.

I was able to use Yuri's Social Login module to achieve what I wanted.

Upon registration via FB a password is not set by the module, and Yuri has it setup so you can optionally set a password after they're logged in.

And the extra good news is if someone is an existing EE member and their FB email matches their EE one, they can sign in with FB to that same account making things seem less, giving you the ability to have FB login and a traditional login working side by side.