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5/5/2010 9:31:16 PM
davidgdean
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Password Recovery RegEx

Is there a way to change the complexity of the password in the password recovery feature? Basically I'd like to have alphanumeric only and remove special characters and / or shorten the length. 

I'm having issues where my users can't copy and paste this "complex" password. Darn users. 

I'm hoping making it a little simpler will help.

5/7/2010 3:26:30 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: Password Recovery RegEx

Hi David,

Its really not a regex thing, it is a random password generator used only when using hashed passwords. Since we can't decrypt a hashed password to send it to the user for password recovery, a new random password is generated. The length of the password is the minimum password length as defined in site settings plus 2. I implemented it today so that we pass in a string with allowed password chars to the generator so it can be specified in Web.config if you want to make simpler generated passwords (though of course stronger passwords are better for security). This will be available in the next release.

Best,

Joe

12/20/2010 12:14:16 PM
Jamie E
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Re: Password Recovery RegEx

Hi Joe, just a belated thank you for adding this much-needed update for hashed passwords--I didn't even realize it was there until recently. I'll send you a new help file for this feature setting that incorporates this change.

Since the "forgot password" email includes both the username and password, could you update the "forgot password" link and descriptions to "forgot username or password" everywhere? That might cut down on manual support as well, for those of us who are using user ID for login.

Thanks!

Jamie

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