Pradeep,

Thanks for the clarification.  At the moment, we don¹t support that type of
functionality but please feel free to add a feature request
(http://mifosforge.jira.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa).

That being said, I personally don¹t think we want to make the minimum
password length any shorter than 6, which to me, already feels too short.
In this day and age, with all the hackers, crackers and other people out on
the internet to do damage, its in the best interest of institutions to force
their users to create strong and secure passwords ­ Especially since Mifos
is online!  I also am not sure why you would want to make the maximum less,
if someone wants a 25 char or longer password (and they can remember), you
should encourage this as it means it is more likely more secure (well, as
long as they aren¹t entering their name).

Where Mifos password functionality could use some improvements is
* Not allowing common passwords.  Eg, password, user¹s name, common words
* enforce strong passwords: eg, use mixed numerals and alpha chars, use
different case, use non alphanumeric characters
* Don¹t allow users to re-use the same password.

It really is in your best interest, and general IT best practices, to
enforce strong passwords.

Have I convinced you yet?

Ryan


On 8/18/10 19:37, "Pradeep Ku. Panda" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
> 
> 
> I am using mifos 1.5.
> 
> At present while we create the System user through Admin link the password of
> the System user take more than 25 digit and the minimum length of the password
> is 6.
> 
> So that i want in what way we can change the length of the password such as
> minimum is 4 and maximum is 8 or 10.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Ryan Whitney <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Pradeep,
>> 
>> I¹m not aware of what our current limits are, but I would file an enhancement
>> request.  Might also help us if you were a bit more specific about what you
>> are trying to do (increase it, shorten it, change the minimum number
>> required?)
>> 
>> http://mifosforge.jira.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa
>> 
>> r
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/17/10 12:23, "Pradeep Ku. Panda" <[email protected]
>> <http://[email protected]> > wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> 
>>>       Can anyone suggest me that how to change the length of user name and
>>> password ?

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