[rt-users] MinPasswordLength Not Working

[Kevin Falcone]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:08:29PM +0000, Thomas Simmons wrote:
> All of the documentation I found stated MinPasswordLength. 

The official documentation that ships with RT is
/opt/rt4/etc/RT_Config.pm for config options.

> Do you have the ability to correct this information on the page below?
> The first one looks like it was last updated by you, but it's "wiki-
> archive", so I don't know if it can be updated at all?
> 
> http://wiki-archive.bestpractical.com/view/SiteConfig/4819

As you noted, this is old and out of date

> Also here (I don't know if this is "Official RT documentation")
> 
> http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/SiteConfig
> 
> http://requesttracker.wikia.com/wiki/MinPasswordLength

These can both be updated by anyone since they're wiki pages.
You don't even need to make a wikia account to fix them.

-kevin

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Falcone
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:05 PM
> To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] MinPasswordLength Not Working
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:17:49PM +0000, Thomas Simmons wrote:
> >    I am unable to get minimum password length enforcement working on a new 4.0.4 install. I have
> >    added:
> > 
> >    Set($MinPasswordLength , '10');
> > 
> >    to my RT_SiteConfig.pm, stopped Apache, cleared the mason cache and restarted Apache, however
> >    the new settings do not take effect. RT still accepts a 5 character password and if I try a
> >    password with less than 5 characters, RT still states the minimum length is still 5.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    While searching online, I found this old thread where someone was experiencing the same
> >    problem with 3.8.2.
> > 
> >    
> > [1]http://old.nabble.com/MinPasswordLength-and-additional-password-rul
> > es-td23560536.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    Can someone advise - is this a long-standing bug? Was support for MinPasswordLength removed at
> >    some point? I appreciate any input.
> 
> The config option is called MinimumPasswordLength, not MinPasswordLength.  It works fine for me.
> 
> -kevin
> 
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