[keycloak-dev] Cleanup of 'Change password' screen in Account app

[Stian Thorgersen]

On 27 November 2015 at 10:23, Vlastimil Elias <velias at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have two proposals for cleanup of 'Change password' screen in Account
> app based on my experience with it:
>
> 1. remove Cancel button - it has no any meaning on this screen/form, it
> only reshowns form with empty fields. And also there is a bug,
> "Password" field is hidden when it is used, which makes whole form
> unusable.
>

+1


>
> 2. remove validation of current password (remove "Password" field). Two
> reasons for this:
>    - security impact of this check is small. If attacker is able to
> compromise Account app then he can always change email and then use
> "Forgot password" feature to change password
>    - user created over Identity Provider do not know old password
> (because it is not set) so he is not able to set password using this screen
> After we implement support for reauthentication (KEYCLOAK-2076) then we
> should set some reasonable reauth timeout for Account app instead, this
> will make it more secure at all.
>

-1 Reset password over email may not be enabled at all. We already allow
setting password for IdPs login without requiring the existing password.

+1 To suggestion from Thomas - we should ask for password when updating
email at least when recover password over email is enabled.

It seems to be common practice to ask for current password when updating
the existing password.


>
> If you agree then I can create JIRA issue for this and provide PR.
>
> Vlastimil
>
> --
> Vlastimil Elias
> Principal Software Engineer
> Developer Portal Engineering Team
>
>
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