On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 4:46:27 PM UTC-5, User wrote: > > When registering a new user using the default Auth forms, if the password > entered is too short, an error message "Too short" is displayed. I would > like to change this message to something more meaningful such as "Password > must be at least x characters" > > 1. How do I do this? >
db.auth_user.password.requires[0].error_message = 'Password must be at least x characters' > 2. Shouldn't the default message be something like this? Seems not user > friendly to just say password "Too short" with no indication to the user > how long a password should be. Are they just supposed to keep entering > passwords until they hit whatever arbitrary password length we have set? > Yes, good idea. Please open an issue on Google Code. > Alternatively, is there a way to specify a permanent hint on the form that > passwords must be x characters? > It would probably be a good idea to add this by default as well. You can do it manually via: db.auth_user.password.comment = 'Password must be...' Anthony -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
