# `AshAuthentication.Strategy.Password.RequestPasswordReset`
[🔗](https://github.com/team-alembic/ash_authentication/blob/main/lib/ash_authentication/strategies/password/request_password_reset.ex#L5)

Requests a password reset.

This implementation performs three jobs:
1. looks up the user with the given action and field
2. if a matching user is found:
  a. a reset token is generated
  b. and the password reset sender is invoked

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*Consult [api-reference.md](api-reference.md) for complete listing*