Hello. Can someone please tell me where I can find the setting for the user
password length and requirements?

My new users try to sign up when they get to creating their own password it
keeps coming up the "password to obvious" message no matter what they enter.
They end up dropping carrier.

How can I change that so they can enter any password they want. I can't find it
in BBS config

Thanks
Mark
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To: Mark i
Re: User password problem
By: Mark i to All on Tue May 24 2022 09:05 am

MI> How can I change that so they can enter any password they want. I can't
MI> find it in BBS config

Tell them to stop trying to use 1234, 4321, ABCD, or ZYXW. Or change the hardcoded checks for that.

- Andre

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To: Andre

Hi. They are not using those passwords . I tried using my daughters middle name
and birth date. Then just random numbers. Still get the message.

Do you know where the hard coding is? Which file?

Thanks
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To: Mark i
Re: User password problem
By: Mark i to All on Tue May 24 2022 09:05 am

> Hello. Can someone please tell me where I can find the setting for the user
> password length and requirements?

SCFG->System:
Users Can Change Password Yes, 4 chars minimum

Also, the file text/password.can

> My new users try to sign up when they get to creating their own password it
> keeps coming up the "password to obvious" message no matter what they enter.
> They end up dropping carrier.
>
> How can I change that so they can enter any password they want. I can't find
> it in BBS config

Some obvious passwords are always disallowed from str.cpp->sbbs_t::chkpass(). Here's that logic:

if((unique && user->pass[0]
&& (strstr(pass,user->pass) || strstr(user->pass,pass)))
|| (name[0]
&& (strstr(pass,name) || strstr(name,pass)))
|| strstr(pass,alias) || strstr(alias,pass)
|| strstr(pass,first) || strstr(first,pass)
|| (last[0]
&& (strstr(pass,last) || strstr(last,pass)))
|| strstr(pass,handle) || strstr(handle,pass)
|| (user->zipcode[0]
&& (strstr(pass,user->zipcode) || strstr(user->zipcode,pass)))
|| (sysname[0]
&& (strstr(pass,sysname) || strstr(sysname,pass)))
|| (sysop[0]
&& (strstr(pass,sysop) || strstr(sysop,pass)))
|| (cfg.sys_id[0]
&& (strstr(pass,cfg.sys_id) || strstr(cfg.sys_id,pass)))
|| (cfg.node_phone[0] && strstr(pass,cfg.node_phone))
|| (user->phone[0] && strstr(user->phone,pass))
|| !strncmp(pass,"QWER",3)
|| !strncmp(pass,"ASDF",3)
|| !strncmp(pass,"!@#$",3)
)
{
bputs(text[PasswordObvious]);
return(false);
}
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