No, IS_STRONG() does not handle generation. You'll have to write your own
code to generate passwords that meet the requirements.
Anthony
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:50:53 PM UTC-4, Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am customizing the user creation in my application. One of the things I
> want to do is to fill in a password with a random and automatically
> generated value.
> The password field is defined like this:
>
> ...
> Field('password', length=512, compute=automatic_password,type
> ='password', readable=False, label='Password'),
> ...
>
>
> agent.password.requires = [IS_STRONG(min=5, special=0, upper=0), CRYPT
> ()]
>
> My automatic_password function is randomly generating a password from a
> custom alphabet, and this is not matching the requirements IS_STRONG and
> CRYPT.
>
> Is there a way in web2py to generate a random password which satisfies the
> given requirements?
> Or maybe the requirements can only be checked against, but are not
> intended for generation ...
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
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