[jboss-as7-dev] Relaxing password requirements for add-user script?

[Jason Greene]

Maybe we should allow a --force option, which bypasses that stuff?

On Oct 10, 2012, at 4:49 AM, Darran Lofthouse <darran.lofthouse at jboss.com> wrote:

> Agreed, a prompt would help so a feature request would be welcome.
> 
> This will be an interesting contributor task I think as we would need to 
> be mapping between the configured policy and appropriate log messages.
> 
> Regards,
> Darran Lofthouse.
> 
> 
> On 10/10/2012 09:02 AM, Stuart Douglas wrote:
>> Also, at the very least this should tell you the requirements before you
>> have to go through the trial and error process to figure out what they are.
>> 
>> Stuart
>> 
>> Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>>> I think it's been a while since I used the add-user script to add
>>> application users. Turns out the password for the new user is now
>>> checked for strength and the rules are a bit annoying [1], at least for
>>> me. As a developer, I just want to test a scenario for EJB invocations.
>>> I tried using "test" as a password and it failed with "too few
>>> characters". Then I tried "test12345" failed again with "your password
>>> should have combination of upper case, lower case, ...". I never have
>>> understood this specific requirement of passwords being forced to be of
>>> certain type (many sites do it). So, would it be possible to somehow
>>> relax this requirement?
>>> 
>>> I'm not a security expert, but is this "your password has to have upper
>>> case, lower case, digit, special char" requirement really worth it in a
>>> real application?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1]
>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2756?focusedCommentId=12653165&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-12653165
>>> 
>>> -Jaikiran
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