Opened 17 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
#5404 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Add pluggable function to enforce password strength
Reported by: | pishmishy | Owned by: | pishmishy |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Security | Keywords: | has-patch |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Patch adds an extra option (disabled by default) to force users to chose secure passwords. A plugin replaceable function is called at the appropriate time to check the strength of the password. I realize that this functionality could be achieved through a plugin but I'd like to make the case that the extra security gained against brute force attacks makes it worth including. See also #4470 (Ideally I should really rewrite the function to replicate that javascript function).
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Ignore my comment on #4470. With after thought I don't think that Javascript function isn't great. checkRepetition() isn't well documented, the algorithm isn't clear (why check for symbols, numbers and then again for symbols and numbers - surely the score would take that into account naturally?).
Preferring my patch for now.