"Generate Password" button on Add New User screen

[simonrcodrington]

Hey everyone.

Just a quick question / discussion about the move to a generated strong password in WordPress 4.3 (as noted here: ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/07/28/passwords-strong-by-default/)

The current flow is that when adding a new user to the admins screen you will select the 'show password' button and that will generate a strong password for you (along with showing you the strength of your password / it's security)

I also hoped that there would be a 'generate password' button to generate a new random password.

It's just as easy to go to a website and generate one and copy it back into the create new user screen, however it would be good to have that in the core.

Any thoughts on this?

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi @simonrcodrington, welcome to Trac!

There is a "Generate Password" button when editing an existing user's profile.

[simonrcodrington]

Thanks for taking the time out to reply @SergeyBiryukov :)

It seems that both the add new user and edit user screens have the same button that displays an already generated password (it looks like it just hides / shows the generated password when you press that button)

What I was wondering why there isn't another button next to it that generates a new password in case you don't want that specific password

Most of the content management systems / websites I've used seem to have an ability to randomly generate a different password. I've built this functionality into WordPress before for clients, just wondering why it isn't part of the core.

[wonderboymusic]

Duplicate of #33450.

This was fixed in [34312].

[simonrcodrington]

Replying to wonderboymusic:

Duplicate of #33450.

This was fixed in [34312].

Thanks @wonderboymusic for the update. Great that is been resolved :)