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Reduce users' password restrictions?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by jspicher, Dec 13, 2011.

  1. jspicher

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    Hey there guys, so l'm using xml-api2 to update users' passwords and everything works great, however sometimes l get a response that the password could not be updated because it contains a dictionary word... l get that however l need to figure out a way around this, if one of our clients wants to use test123 as their cpanel password; l need to let them do it. Is there a setting somewhere in WHM that will let me scale these restrictions down a bit?

    Thanks for your help!
     
    #1 jspicher, Dec 13, 2011
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    WHM >> Security Center >> Password Strength Configuration
     
    #2 quietFinn, Dec 13, 2011
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    Thanks quietFinn,
    I've updated this setting, and have it set all the way to 0 and the api still responds with:
    Your password could not be changed because the new password failed with the following reason : (it is based on a dictionary word), please try again!

    When trying to set a cpanel password to test123 ... is there anything else l can do to disable this?
     
    #3 jspicher, Dec 14, 2011
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    I tested it, in WHM, created an account with password test123, and then changed the password to test12.
    Guess the limitation is in the api then...
     
    #4 quietFinn, Dec 14, 2011
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    I noticed that if I changed the password in command line, I get that error:
    BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
    but the password was changed anyway.
     
    #5 quietFinn, Dec 14, 2011
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    Hello :)

    The message is coming from the Linux "passwd" command, rather than cPanel. In specific, it stems from the pam_cracklib module. This module helps to ensure passwords are not vulnerable. You can disable this module your system, however doing so would allow passwords such as "123" to be used.

    Thank you.
     
    #6 cPanelMichael, Dec 15, 2011
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