Force Strong Passwords — FRUSTRATION!!!

  • Resolved mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I can not believe this but it’s true. My Wordfence install keeps reverting to the “Force Strong Passwords” setting! This is horrible. I’ll not get into the reason it’s HORRIBLE other than to say we change admin passwords often to lengthy all alpha characters and don’t need this making us do difficult to keyboard passwords, and it blocks our password changes without being obvious about it!

    Please Wordfence, any fix for this? It is just so totally lame. Wasted me hours of time because I kept sending what I thought was a new password to an admin, but it turned out the password never changed due to this Wordfence setting being automatically checked.

    MTN

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

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  • Germont

    (@alergic)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Just be sure you unchecked all options about passwords:

    Check the strength of passwords
    Enforce strong passwords
    Check password strength on profile update    .

    Thread Starter mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks Germont, I looked at all that, everything is unchecked and remains so, with “Enforce Strong Passwords” set as “Do not…” until it switches to being enabled without my intervention…

    This is very frustrating as it cost me hours of time trying to figure out what was going on with user passwords not working when I thought I’d changed them.

    I have no idea what would cause “Enforce Strong…” to revert/default to be enabled.

    Clearly a major flaw. Am waiting for a take from Wordfence support.

    MTN

    wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi MTN,
    Please try checking this option “Disable config caching” under (Wordfence > Diagnostics => Debugging Options).
    After that you can uncheck “Enforce strong passwords” and notice if it will be reverted back to the default settings or not.

    Check this link for more details.

    Let me know if this helps!
    Thanks.

    Thread Starter mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks wfalaa, “Disable config caching” was unchecked, so I checked it and resaved my configuration.

    I then unchecked it so I get the benefit of the caching as my site is always too close to overloading the server.

    Any speed hit from disabling the config caching? How much server load are we talking about?

    For a few days I’ve not had the problem of the “Enforce Strong Passwords” reverting. I’ve also gotten in the habit of checking it before any work with WordPress user passwords. But it would be nice to check this problem off my list and work more on the other 456 problems (smile).

    MTN

    wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    I would say it’s more about “performance enhancement” than “speed enhancement”, but it’s not that kind of processes which may cause sever overloading on your server, so I can confirm that unchecking this option can’t cause any performance issue or overload your server by any way.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter mountainguy2

    (@mountainguy2)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Great, thanks. MTN

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