> Is this something that you might be looking to change?

Me personally no... Somebody on devs@ might have an opinion about it...

> I would have thought that people looking to implement your LDAP work will be 
> interested in it from a security point of view so having password complexity 
> rules would also be of significant interest, especially if there's a similar 
> requirement enforced at the LDAP side

Account passwords and instance passwords are very separate. One would
hope that the instance passwords given via the "reset" function are
purely throw-away/use-once passwords.

On 6 August 2013 12:52, Adrian Lewis <adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> Is this something that you might be looking to change? I would have thought
> that people looking to implement your LDAP work will be interested in it
> from a security point of view so having password complexity rules would also
> be of significant interest, especially if there's a similar requirement
> enforced at the LDAP side. Something for 4.3 perhaps?
>
> Adrian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Duffy [mailto:i...@ianduffy.ie]
> Sent: 06 August 2013 12:07
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Guest VM password reset - Complexity
>
> Hi Gaspare,
>
> As far as I'm aware there is no way to do this without modifying the source.
>
> The generation of password resets are handled by this piece of code:
> https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cloudstack.git;a=blob;f=utils/src/com/cloud/utils/PasswordGenerator.java;h=022afd0d8bda7eaba84a8b67c595e676158837d4;hb=HEAD
>
> It is hard coded to generate passwords of length 6.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ian
>
> On 6 August 2013 11:29, Gaspare A Silvestri <g.silves...@netsons.com> wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> is therea way to improve the password complexity when generating a
>> password using the reset guest password script?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Gaspare
>>

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