Magento – ‘checkout as guest’ work same as ‘register’ with auto generated password

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On onepage-checkout page there are three methods to check out.

How checkout as guest method work same register method with auto generated password?

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I would suggest observing customer_register_success event and doing something like this:

$customer = $observer->getEvent()->getData('customer');
/* TODO: check that registration type is 'guest'. Otherwise you overwrite inserted password */
$customer->setPassword(_your_generated_password_here_)->save();

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Magento – Why does magento register at checkout not working sometimes? How to Auto login already registered customers

At last found the problem, there was a custom modification, which didn't throw an exception, when already registered customer tries to register again. So, that customer was considered as a Guest [NOT LOGGED IN] customer.

The bad part is that, it was straight away done in core files, so I didn't find it until now.

I didn't want to mess up with these changes, so created an event-observer to automatically login, if the customer is already registered.

if(!Mage::helper('customer')->isLoggedIn()){
    $data = $evt->getEvent()->getControllerAction()->getRequest()->getPost('billing', array());
    $customer = Mage::getModel("customer/customer");    
    $email = $data['email']; //email entered in billing address section
    $customer->setWebsiteId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getWebsiteId())->loadByEmail($email);

    if($customer->getId()){
        Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->loginById($customer->getId());
    }
}

Magento Enterprise Checkout – Guest Not Showing Up

I was reading about "Persistent car"

I think you don't understand the cocept of "persistent shopping cart" in Magento. This has nothing to to with allowing guest checkout or not. The only thing that it does, is to set a cookie that will allow the customer in his next visit to the website [...] persistent shopping cart disadvantages

So I suppose that it was the cookie that cause that behavior. I set to No "Persistent Shopping Cart", and solved that issue with the guest but is kinda frustrating because I've had to disable the "Remember me", I guess that I've to choose between one and another.

"During the time a persistent shopping cart is use, both registered customers and guest shoppers are required to either log in to an existing account, or create a new account before going through the checkout process" http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/setting-up-a-persistent-shopping-cart

So there's the answer. Thanks to everybody for your answers.

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