About This File

This plugin will change the behaviour of all PASSWORD fields on IPS4, by allowing the administrator to set the minimum length for the passwords. IPS4 default is 3 characters.

IMPORTANT: BE ADVISED THAT EXISTING USERS WITH PASSWORD LENGTH LESS THAN THE SETTING VALUE WON'T BE ABLE TO LOGIN. THEY WILL HAVE TO USE THE RESET PASSWORD FEATURE ON LOGIN SCREEN, BY CLICKING IN THE LINK "FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD?".

If a users current password is less than the newly defined minimum, they can't login. Tested by setting a new accounts password to 4 characters, enabled the plugin with a minimum 8 characters, this new account then fails to login with the error message stating the minimum password length is 8 characters.

Wouldn't it be helpful if it was to allow user to login but then ask them to update their password.

9 minutes ago, Valthos said:

Wouldn't it be helpful if it was to allow user to login but then ask them to update their password.

I don't think there's an workaround for this.

The link to remember password doesn't appear?

1 minute ago, Adriano Faria said:

I don't think there's an workaround for this.

The link to remember password doesn't appear?

If they can't login, how would the system remember their password?

You don't need to login to use the password remember! It wouldn't have no sense if I need to inform the password.

It will ask your email or username!

Oh do you mean password reset? Thought you meant the remember me function. Yes that's still there.

Yes.

I don't think there's much else to do. Better create a topic in a forum or send a bulk email telling users to reset the password.

Added the following notice to the file:

"IMPORTANT: BE ADVISED THAT EXISTING USERS WITH PASSWORD LENGTH LESS THAN THE SETTING VALUE WON'T BE ABLE TO LOGIN. THEY WILL HAVE TO USE THE RESET PASSWORD FEATURE ON LOGIN SCREEN, BY CLICKING IN THE LINK "FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD?".

Create file, by read above! What? I'm not going to install if there are problems 

4 hours ago, EmpireKickAss said:

I'm not going to install if there are problems

There is no problem with the file. It's kinda logical: if a user uses a password with 4 chars and you change to 10, he won't login. He needs to create another password.

And FWIW: that's exacly why IPS doesn't change it after all those years.

What's New in Version 1.0.1:

Fix: the existing users will still be able to keep logging in on your board. They will be required to use new password length when they change their password.