Feature #199

Don't allow users password to contain the username

Added by Alex Cartwright about 2 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:Approved Start date:2009-11-27
Priority:Undecided Due date:
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Description

To help protect users accounts when registering and altering password, it should be disallowed to have the username or email address in the password.

History

Updated by Alex Cartwright about 2 years ago

3 possible ways of doing this:

  1. Check if the username exists in the password, simply and easy. Trouble is, if short username like 3 letters, it is very possible to have those in the password - but not be a security concern.
  2. Check if username is over say, 5 chars long - if so, then check if username exists in password.
  3. Also check that their password is not their email address

Updated by Alex Cartwright about 1 year ago

  • Status changed from 17 to Approved

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