Simplify default passwords – how to?

  • Resolved deanes02

    (@deanes02)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, When a user registers for my site they get sent an unbelievably complicated password, which no one can remember.

    I know they can copy and paste, log in and then change their password, but they don’t and I get loads of enquiries.

    Is there any way, maybe via a plugin, or some hacky code that I can tell wordpress to send my users something a bit easier (and yes, i know, insecure) to remember?

    Please help, I can’t be the first to want to do this, but i have searched and searched with no joy 🙂

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter deanes02

    (@deanes02)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    actually, can i change that to a hack way please! I’m using bbpress as well and it also generates these super complicated passwords.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter deanes02

    (@deanes02)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    here’s the answer —

    in wp-includes/pluggable.php – turn off special chars, reduce the length and reduce the amount of chars it can randonly select from…

    function wp_generate_password($length = 5, $special_chars = false) {
	$chars = 'ABCDEFGH23456789';
	if ( $special_chars )
		$chars .= '!@#$%^&*()';

	$password = '';
	for ( $i = 0; $i < $length; $i++ )
		$password .= substr($chars, wp_rand(0, strlen($chars) - 1), 1);
	return $password;
}

    for bbPress you do a similar thing in \forums\bb-includes\functions.bb-pluggable.php

    function bb_generate_password( $length = 5, $special_chars = false ) {
	//return WP_Pass::generate_password( $length, $special_chars );
		$chars = 'abcd23456789';
  	if ( $special_chars )
  		$chars .= '!@#$%^&*()';

  	$password = '';
  	for ( $i = 0; $i < $length; $i++ )
  		$password .= substr($chars, rand(0, strlen($chars) - 1), 1);
  	return $password;
}
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