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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:
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Text of message is:
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 was living with it, but now I am wondering why ?
I tried all password combinations respecting the rules in message and trying different special chars, but it always shows
Is it a bug ?
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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.
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