Topic: unable to reset USER password

[artful]

I have a clean/new install of 7.0pre3.
having added a new user I needed to reset the password

Create, modify, or remove user accounts ERROR    

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ERROR: There was an error in the validation of this page. Please scroll down and find the specific problem.

Reset user password

The password you provided was not a good password. A good password must contain all of the following: upper case letter, lower case letter, number, non-alphanumeric character, be at least 7 characters long.

no matter what I entered as a password the system always came back with the same error

any ideas?

[byte]

Artful,

would you mind copying and pasting to the bug tracker as it should really be reported there as dev team may miss ur post...

Thanks!

[gordonr]

The password you provided was not a good password. A good password must contain all of the following: upper case letter, lower case letter, number, non-alphanumeric character, be at least 7 characters long.

no matter what I entered as a password the system always came back with the same error

Does your password meet all of those criteria? If so, please raise this in the bug tracker. And see here:

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

[artful]

Gordonr,

your link helped, turns out that my 'user' password did not meet the 'strong' requirments.

personally I find it to be "overkill" for a user to have to have a 'strong' password.

[gordonr]

your link helped, turns out that my 'user' password did not meet the 'strong' requirments.

The error message you pasted showed the same information.
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personally I find it to be "overkill" for a user to have to have a 'strong' password.

The option is there to reduce the system security. However, we are seeing a lot of attacks via SSH on weak passwords so the default must be as secure as possible.