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Photo by Micah Williams on Unsplash This article discusses a new feature which will be released for the public distribution of WSO2 Identity Server 5.12.0. This feature was developed to overcome the following scenario: You can refer to the following diagram for a deeper understanding of the above flow. This scenario can be experienced by anyone. As such, we introduced a new way to handle this scenario (as shown below) for the notification based password recovery flow.

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Are you someone who already has a legacy system in place and wants to migrate to a modern authentication system with Identity and Access Management (IAM) features? The first thing you need to consider is how you can use the existing legacy user store with this new system. Keep in mind that if the legacy user store uses an old security mechanism to store your data, we would recommend that you migrate to the WSO2 JDBC user store format or Active Directory (AD).

Have you ever found passwords to be extremely inconvenient? In a developing world, you've been using older technology?

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