https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17604


^demon <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |[email protected]
          Component|General/Unknown             |General/Unknown
            Product|MediaWiki                   |MediaWiki extensions
            Version|1.15-svn                    |any




--- Comment #2 from ^demon <[email protected]>  2009-02-23 17:50:09 UTC 
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I don't see how this reduces password security. Knowing how many digits must be
in a password doesn't tell you how many are in one, nor does it tell you how
many the average person uses. Same for upper/lowercased numbers. Not to
mention: a regex block just blocks a certain format, it doesn't tell you what
the password *should* be. 

Suggestions on how to improve it are welcome, but a blanket "its bad and take
it away" isn't helpful. A very good use case would be internal wikis (of which
there are many). A company might want their users to use strong passwords, but
in reality the chances of someone trying to brute force MediaWiki passwords on
an internal network is low.

(Switching to extensions because this isn't in core)


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