---
name: "email-and-password-best-practices"
description: "Configure email verification, implement password reset flows, set password policies, and customise hashing algorithms for Better Auth email/password authentication. Use when users need to set up login, sign-in, sign-up, credential authentication, or password security with Better Auth."
slug: "email-and-password-best-practices"
metadata:
  sources:
    -
      kind: "github-dir"
      commit: "6a1636950a1d7fc53602639ce7505a4a5d39c797"
      path: "better-auth/emailAndPassword"
      repo: "better-auth/skills"
      trackingRef: "main"
      url: "https://github.com/better-auth/skills"
key: "better-auth/skills/email-and-password-best-practices"
---