https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16435





--- Comment #4 from Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]>  2009-02-19 
17:41:33 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> Since there's a captcha after 3 attempts and a temporary lockout after 3 (or
> so) more attempts, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to enforce that much brute
> force or dictionary resistant passwords.
> Too strong passwords would be difficult for the users to remember.
> What about just letting the user know about his/her password strength ?
> 
Yes, that'd be nice too. I know of several sites which have a password strengh
indicator beside the input which changes as you're typing from "empty" in grey
-> "weak" in red -> "OK" in yellow -> "strong" in green using AJAX.

> However, since the compromised accounts passwords were either the same as the
> login or just "password", those are basic rules to improve password strength
> (they are probably already active).
> 
I'm not sure what you mean here... Are there already restrictions on using
"password" as the password, or using your username as the password? That good,
but we can do better.


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