Randomly generated password for new accounts/ password reset script

[ccepts]

Hello everyone,

Please I need your help to see what I may be missing

Here is my goal:

When a new user is created, I want to generate a random password so I can send this password to the user. The user will use the random password to reset the password and log in to the system.

Using the script below, I see a random password is created when I check the log. I have a custom field Pword, just for comparison. The generated temporary password shows on the log, but when I attempt to log in with the password, it doesn't work. This mean my password doesn't seem to be working Please help me evaluate.

Thank you

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/ ) {

    // Add your code here

    var chars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXTZabcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
    var string_length = 8;
    var randomstring = '';

    for (var i = 0; i < string_length; i++) {
        var rnum = Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length);

        randomstring += chars.substring(rnum, rnum + 1);

    }

    var password = current.user_password.setDisplayValue(randomstring);

        randomstring = current.user_password;

    current.password_needs_reset = true;
    current.update();
    var Pword = current.user_password;
    

    gs.log("password..   " + Pword);
    gs.log("randomstring..   " + randomstring);

})(current, previous);

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@ccepts 

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Regards
Ankur

[DB1]

Hi Ankur, Can you please help on how to send out notification after generating a password?