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New password is weak message on creating users
Hi, Since more than a year, I notices this message when ever I create a new user or save changes to an existing user: The attached images are broken ! Text of message is: The new password is wea...
chopin70 wrote:
Hi,
The new password is weak, and will reduce the security of your system. Recommended passwords contain at least 8 characters, one uppercase,
one lowercase, one number, and one special character. Do you want to apply it anyway?
I tried all password combinations respecting the rules in message and trying different special chars, but it always shows
Is it a bug ?
Qwe#1234 doesn't trigger the message on my system (running 6.10.3). I substituted a couple of other special characters for the #, and didn't see the message either.
If you post a sample password that fails on your system, I can check it on mine.
In fact, yours is fine
here's one that fails:
f587dTr-xfT
I think that any special character like -, *... will cause the message
However, if I login as user :
su - user_name
the password with all the special chars is accepted. So it was properly saved
Seems like a bug in the GUI when accepting passwords with some characters
chopin70 wrote:
here's one that fails:
f587dTr-xfT
I think that any special character like -, *... will cause the message
It fails on my system too. f587dTr^xfT is accepted though.
It looks like they are excluding some special characters - it'd be nice if JohnCM_S or Marc_V could tell us which ones.
chopin70 wrote:
So it was properly saved
Yes. It's a warning, and it will accept passwords that fail its strength check.
For me it is a GUI bug because the message is misleading saying that the pass length or strength is not good while it is not the case + it accepts the whole password afterward
A variety of chars seem to cause it even undrescores, *...
thank you
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