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Long Term Support Release

  • Bug fixes for general core bugs in 4.1.x will end 13 November 2023 (12 months).
  • Bug fixes for security issues in 4.1.x will end 10 November 2025 (36 months).
  • PHP version: minimum PHP 7.4.0 Note: minimum PHP version has increased since Moodle 4.0. PHP 8.0.x is supported too.
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// This file is part of Moodle - http://moodle.org/
//
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// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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//
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/**
 * Scheduled task class.
 *
 * @package    core
 * @copyright  2013 onwards Martin Dougiamas  http://dougiamas.com
 * @license    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL v3 or later
 */
namespace core\task;

/**
 * Simple task to create accounts and send password emails for new users.
 */
class send_new_user_passwords_task extends scheduled_task {

    /**
     * Get a descriptive name for this task (shown to admins).
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function get_name() {
        return get_string('tasksendnewuserpasswords', 'admin');
    }

    /**
     * Do the job.
     * Throw exceptions on errors (the job will be retried).
     */
    public function execute() {
        global $DB;

        // Generate new password emails for users - ppl expect these generated asap.
        if ($DB->count_records('user_preferences', array('name' => 'create_password', 'value' => '1'))) {
            mtrace('Creating passwords for new users...');
< $usernamefields = get_all_user_name_fields(true, 'u');
> $userfieldsapi = \core_user\fields::for_name(); > $usernamefields = $userfieldsapi->get_sql('u', false, '', '', false)->selects;
$newusers = $DB->get_recordset_sql("SELECT u.id as id, u.email, u.auth, u.deleted, u.suspended, u.emailstop, u.mnethostid, u.mailformat, $usernamefields, u.username, u.lang, p.id as prefid FROM {user} u JOIN {user_preferences} p ON u.id=p.userid WHERE p.name='create_password' AND p.value='1' AND u.email !='' AND u.suspended = 0 AND u.auth != 'nologin' AND u.deleted = 0"); // Note: we can not send emails to suspended accounts. foreach ($newusers as $newuser) { // Use a low cost factor when generating bcrypt hash otherwise // hashing would be slow when emailing lots of users. Hashes // will be automatically updated to a higher cost factor the first // time the user logs in. if (setnew_password_and_mail($newuser, true)) { unset_user_preference('create_password', $newuser); set_user_preference('auth_forcepasswordchange', 1, $newuser); } else { trigger_error("Could not create and mail new user password!"); } } $newusers->close(); } } }