To Generate Unique Password in a Landing Page

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

Please give me your advice !!!:

I want to create a landing page where a unique password can be generated and an email informing an registrant of the password and then the database aquires the information about lead and the password.

Is it possible? If so,  do I need some API ?
I want to use the password for authoraization to view YouTube streaming.

Best,

Tad


 

[Josh_Hill13]

You should use the API and some sort of javascript to handle this. This is not natively supported in Marketo.

[Jep_Castelein2]

Hi Tad, it's not recommend to store passwords in Marketo, because Marketo can only store information in plain text. For security reasons, passwords should always be stored in encrypted form and Marketo can't do that. I would recommend creating this landing page outside of Marketo. 

[Anonymous]

Hi Josh san,
Thanks for your comments!
Would you give detailed information about the API and some sort of javascript?


Hi Jep san,
 Thanks for your advice. True that I should ragard security issues as top pritority but in this case, the password may be not critically important since it is just usedd for authorization of viewing YouTube video.


Tad

[Jep_Castelein2]

If you auto-generate a password, then security should not be a problem. You probably want to use JavaScript and some kind of random string generation algorithm to generate the password. To populate fields, use the Forms 2.0 API (section #3). 

If visitors can choose their own password, there may still be some security risk: unfortunately, many people choose the same password as they use for other services, and therefore it's still a risk if their other accounts are at risk because the password is not properly secured in Marketo.