by Ray Hernandez.
So I currently use web services to auto-create users within Moodle using the core_user_create_users web service function. I've noticed that if you pass in the create_password option you have to wait until the next cron cycle before the user gets a password. I end up having to generate random strings to stick in the password field until that happens.
It seems like the passwords should be auto-generated upon account creation but maybe that is too expensive. Does that sound right? How do others deal with this scenario?
--Ray