Title: Default Easy Password
Last modified: March 16, 2017

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# Default Easy Password

 *  [rocketmarketing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rocketmarketing/)
 * (@rocketmarketing)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-easy-password/)
 * Hello everybody!
 * I have a WP site where doctors have an account created for them along with a 
   password. I am receiving a ton of complaints about the password being to hard
   to use. Yes they can change it, but for them to spend time to figure it out won’t
   happen.
 * The default passwords look something like this…. V14&*oi#$45jk!@””D44. There 
   is no way in the world for these doctors to be able to figure out how to type
   that. Many of these doctors have simply stopped using the site.
 * The number one rule in UX is to meet user expectations. This does not meet user
   expectations.
 * The fix. All automatically passwords should be generated like this.
    Color, Thing,
   Verb, 3 digit Number, Symbol. An no fancy symbols. Just the top row of the numbers
   on the keyboard.
 * BlueWagonSupporting556!
 * Thanks,
 * Steve

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-easy-password/#post-8924375)
 * Setting default passwordsas you’ve suggested is pretty insecure. If it was done
   like that there’s only a small (in relative terms) amount of possible passwords
   that would be available, so cracking them would be trivial these days.
 * The symbols are there for a reason – they do make password harder, both to crack
   and to remember.
 * And to be honest, if someone that’s smart enough to get a dotorate cant figure
   out how to update their password through a few basic links, there’s more problems
   then just usability.
 * But, if you do need easier passwords, the best idea is to create the accounts
   manually. That way you can set whatever passwords you want to.
 *  Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * (@numeeja)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-easy-password/#post-8925991)
 * There’s a good idea for strong but memorable passwords in the XKCD comic at [https://xkcd.com/936/](https://xkcd.com/936/)
 * I’ve put together a simple plugin to filter the replace the default random password
   generator with a XKCD style password generator using the server’s dictionary 
   words list.
 * This plugin needs a readme & some additional testing before I submit it to the
   plugins directory, but it should work on most *nix systems
 *     ```
       <?php
       /*
       Plugin Name: XKCD Passwords
       Plugin URI: http://cubecolour.co.uk
       Description: Generates new passwords using XKCD 'four random words'
       Author: cubecolour
       Version: 1.0.0
       Author URI: http://cubecolour.co.uk
       Text Domain: xkcd-password
   
       Licence: GPL
       props to:
       XKCD: https://xkcd.com/936/
       bendiy: https://gist.github.com/bendiy/5688443
       */
   
       if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;
   
       function cc_xkcd_password_generator() {
       	$lines = file('/usr/share/dict/words', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
       	$length = count($lines);
       	$password = '';
       	for ($i = 1; $i <= 4; $i++) {
       		$plain = FALSE;
       		while (!$plain) {
       			// Get random word from $lines
       			$key = mt_rand(0, $length);
       			if ((preg_match("/^[a-z]+$/", $lines[$key]) == 1) && (strlen($lines[$key]) < 9)) {
       				//* String only contains a to z characters
       				$plain = TRUE;
       				$password = $password . $lines[$key];
       				//* Add hyphen between words
       				if ($i != 4 ){
       					$password = $password . '-';
       				}
       			}
       		}
       	}
       	return $password;
       }
       add_filter( 'random_password', 'cc_xkcd_password_generator' );
       ```
   
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/).

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 * Last reply from: [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-easy-password/#post-8925991)
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