# password\_hash & salt with facebook authentication

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/password-hash-salt-with-facebook-authentication/42649>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [April 16, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/password-hash-salt-with-facebook-authentication/42649 "2016-04-16T13:15:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/password-hash-salt-with-facebook-authentication/42649/4 "2016-04-16T18:22:10Z")

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I am not following.

It doesn’t matter at all. You don’t have **chance** to set password when using an OAuth services if they provide username and email.

The user can use their setting page to reset their password.

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