[SOLVED] Require longer password upon account creation

Hello all!

I'm new to OC, been fiddling with it for a week or so. Using 1.4.9.5.

My problem is that I feel that the requirement of 3 characters for a password is way too unsafe for customers so I was wondering where I could change this to say 6 or 8 and perhaps also requiring a mix of letters and numbers.

I'm sorry if I'm aksing int he wrong section, don't know where account creation belongs.

The validation on customer passwords checks that the password is not less than 4 characters (ie. sets a 4 character minimum) and not greater than 20. So, the password can be from 4 to 20 characters long.

There is nothing stopping you from using a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers. You can even use some symbols.

fido-x wrote:The validation on customer passwords checks that the password is not less than 4 characters (ie. sets a 4 character minimum) and not greater than 20. So, the password can be from 4 to 20 characters long.

There is nothing stopping you from using a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers. You can even use some symbols.

Yes but I wanna force the customers to set a pass with a minimum of say 6 characters and I want it to say that the password is too short if they try setting less than that.

catalog/controller/account/register.php

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change 4 to 6

i think thats all you need to change. let me know if it works.

SXGuy wrote:catalog/controller/account/register.php

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if ((strlen(utf8_decode($this->request->post['password'])) < 4) || (strlen(utf8_decode($this->request->post['password'])) > 20)) {
      		$this->error['password'] = $this->language->get('error_password');
    	}

change 4 to 6

i think thats all you need to change. let me know if it works.

Woo, it does. Thanks a lot!

And if anyone is looking for the same solution, don't forget to change the error text in:

/catalog/language/LANGUAGE/account/create.php
/catalog/language/LANGUAGE/account/password.php

So it says "must be longer than X...."