Comment 3 for bug 1045123

Another scenario when the password field has come in handy for me, was during a support call by a client doing Mahara training. Her students were supposed to have registered their Mahara accounts prior to the class, but there were a couple who hadn't, and so I needed to create accounts for them and give them their login info over the phone, because the class was in progress and it was essential to get it done fast without having to wait to check emails.

So I think we should leave the password field as an option, but have it be disabled by default. Like, have a checkbox that says "manually assign password?" (unticked by default) and when it is unticked the password field is grayed out. That will encourage admins to use the email confirmation process instead, while still leaving the manual password process as an option when needed.

Cheers,
Aaron