Remove "Better Passwords" function in WP

  • budskab

    (@budskab)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi

    I have site with multiple users, and they aren’t as excited about the “Better password” feature of WordPress 4.3 as I am.

    (This is a feature where WP suggests a very strong password on sign-up and resetting password)

    As an admin I think strong passwords are great. But users on this particular site has acces to almost nothing and having such a strong password seems like a major overkill.

    Trouble is that they can’t remember the strong passwords (and can’t seem to figure, that they are able to write something else than the suggested password) and ends up resetting all the time. And therefore starts complaining quite a bit.

    I always enforce strong passwords (via another plugin) for Admins and Editors, who has actual permissions on the site. But I would very much like to disable this suggest feature, since it is causing my users quite some trobule.

    Anyone know how to do this?

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  • Bloke

    (@bloke)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    All they have to do is click “confirm use of weak password”

    codemovement.pk

    (@codemovementpk)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I think you have to wait for the later release of this plugin 🙂
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/minimum-password-strength/

    here is what the plugin writer says:
    “For now, all users have the same password strength requirements, but a later release will allow administrators to select different strength requirements for different roles.”

    Thread Starter budskab

    (@budskab)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Bloke: They can overwrite the suggest, but the average user don’t know that. SO they think, that they are forced to use the strong password. That’s why I wanna remove the suggested password prepopulated in the “new password” field.

    CodeMovement:
    I already have enforced strong passwords for some users. And these users can choose whatever they want. Only requirement is length.

    So:

    I don’t need to change the password strength requirements. These are all good.

    I need to disable the new function in which WordPress automatically suggests a strong password when a user is changing his/hers password.

    Thread Starter budskab

    (@budskab)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Bump

    I still haven’t found any solution to this.

    Anyone able to help?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    10 years, 6 months ago

    They can overwrite the suggest, but the average user don’t know that. SO they think, that they are forced to use the strong password.
    …
    I still haven’t found any solution to this.

    Education? Have you tried telling them what to do if they want to use a crappy password?

    I would suggest using password managers and educating your users before I would ever consider using weaker security. If a user is actually unable to use strong passwords, then I would not let them have a log in to my systems.

    I mean, it’s certainly possible to write a plugin to weaken your security, but why on earth would you actually want to do that?

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