This plugin enables admins (or any one with permission) to bulk reset users password and send password to users by email. Force password change will be set for those users.

The process starts by uploading a CSV file with usernames to mark users who need password reset. A scheduled task is used to perform the process of resetting password and sending mail to users.

Role and permissions

This plugin can be used in system context. 

A permission “tool/resetpasswords:bulkresetpassword” can be granted to any role.

This permission is granted by default to admin & manager roles.

To access this tool

The tool is available under site administration -> users -> accounts -> Bulk reset password

Scheduled tasks

Process scheduled task is tool_resetpasswords\task\bulkreset_passwords