Special:PasswordPolicies

Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki
Message-ID <CAH8yC8=mhc_O4hTU7Rj79yYSUEbprCn05i3oETifjmyLfER8uA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Everyone,

I was wandering through
https://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/Special:PasswordPolicies , which comes
from Mediawiki 1.38.2.

The first line for Autoconfirmed Users says:

    Password must be at least 1 character long
    (MinimalPasswordLength) (suggest change on login)

I think there are several problems with the page in general and text
in particular. First, a 1 character password is not really acceptable
in practice. It is probably time to increase the size of a minimum
password, to something like 16.

Second, the referenced variable, MinimalPasswordLength, is deprecated.
Or $wgMinimalPasswordLength is deprecated.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgMinimalPasswordLength

It might be a good idea for someone to visit the documentation for
Special:PasswordPolicies and maybe update it.

Jeff
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