Topic: SME 7 Beta 2 - Bad Password Choice

[sonoracomm]

Hi Folks,

I'm really enjoying testing of Beta 2, thank you for your hard work.

I have a small gripe and suggestion.  It's one of those things where everyone will have their own opinion.

I was trying to set the password on a regular user when I got the error: Bad Password Choice.  After 20+ minutes of searching (nothing found for "Bad Password Choice"), I found this page:

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/SME%20Server%207%20password%20check%20and%20settings.

and determined the default password security settings are:

passwordstrength=configuration
    Admin=strong
    Ibays=strong
    Users=strong

Frankly, as a professional installing systems for small businesses, this has to be changed because it's going to create friction during an already tense period (new server installation).

This means I'm going to have to research the proper command line every time I install a SME server.

My suggestion: give administrators an easy (web panel) way to change the settings.  That would give you the option of setting the defaults any way you want while still making it easy for sysadmins to modify if they want to.

Or how about this: an 'override' checkbox on the Set User Password panel that allows the sysadmin the ability to save whatever password he/she wants...after having been advised it isn't strong enough.

Thanks for listening,

G

[gbaird]

"Frankly, as a professional installing systems for small businesses, this has to be changed"

then change it !

look at
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=28837.0

search don't complain nothing gets fixed

[guest22]

I wonder what happened with this page:

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/SME%20Server%207%20password%20check%20and%20settings.

I created the page, but all info is now gone and no history available.

guest

[sonoracomm]

Dear gbaird,

Evidently they didn't teach you to read in school.  If they had, you might have read my post...and understood it.

I quite plainly _did_ search and _did_ resolve my immediate issue.  My point was to make a suggestion about a beta release in order to make it better.  That _is_ what beta releases are for, right?

Furthermore, I wanted to get the error message "Bad Password Choice" into the site's search index as a search on that term does _not_ return an immediately pertinent result whereas a search just on "password" returns too many results to be useful.

Frankly I don't appreciate your tone, your attitude or you putting words in my mouth.  It's forum posts like yours that give entire communities a bad name.  If you can't be inoffensive, just log out.

G

[gregswallow]

You are wasting your time searching contribs.org for problems with SME7 Beta, search the bug tracker on sourceforge, and report problems there, not on these forums.