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Title: Easy password for ibays
Post by: niki40 on April 08, 2009, 03:53:15 PM

I created an ibay for FTP access and I like to use the same password I allways use.
The sistem ask me to put a difficult password with simbols, characters, etc.. etc.
How can I change the system to use more easy pass?
I want to use less than 8 char and simple words.
Regards

Title: Re: Easy password for ibays
Post by: mmccarn on April 08, 2009, 04:02:18 PM

http://wiki.contribs.org/Password_Strength

If you set passwordstrength for your ibays to "none" you will still need to use 7 characters, but there will be no weird strict requirements for punctuation,numbers and mixed case.

Even with passwordstrength set to 'none', there is a minimum 7 character password length: http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3039#c4

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Edited to indicate my agreement with Mary's word choice below...
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Title: Re: Easy password for ibays
Post by: janet on April 08, 2009, 11:49:44 PM

mmccarn & niki40

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.... but there will be no weird requirements for punctuation,numbers and mixed case.

I think "strict" rather than "weird", might be a better description.
Checking is in accordance with Cracklib & industry acceptable security concepts, nothing weird about that.

See also
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Password_Strength_Checking

strong - The password is passed through Cracklib for dictionary type word checking as well as requiring upper case, lower case, number, non alpha and a mimimum length of 7 characters.

normal - The password requires upper case, lower case, number, non alpha and a minimum length of 7 characters.

none    - The password can be anything as no checking is done.

Please note that "none" does not mean no password, it just means no password strength checking, so you can enter any (weak) password you want as long as it is at least 7 characters long.