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configure password complexity

Nic Hart February 1, 2013

I want to

a) enforce custom minimum password complexity requirements

b) enable zero length passwords

Ideally, password complexity requirement would be linked to group membership.

I understand that using external authentication would allow this however the application is for a site which would not otherwise require a directory service and many users would be external to the host organisation. And additionally, internal users WILL be configured for auth in MS AD.

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Daniel Borcherding
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February 3, 2013

Hello Nic,

It looks like this question has been asked a couple times on Answer before.

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/19518/password-complexity-within-confluence

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/8838/how-to-force-users-to-use-strong-password

Both of these cases cite an old Adaptavist Plugin (User Security Management) that I am no able to locate any longer.

I went ahead and filed the following feature request on your behalf.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27986

Please go ahead and vist this issue and vote on it. The more visitbility we can garner for this issue means the more likely our developers are to include it in a future release of Confluence. I have attached this post to further incease it's visibility.

Nic Hart February 3, 2013

Thanks Daniel. I too found the Adaptivist links, but nothing at Adaptivist site now refers. I think that there are two distinct issues here and your proposed feature request addresses one of them; the other is documentation - i.e. I can't find anywhere a description of what the current system actually requires in terms of password complexity, and I suggest that along side that missing documentation should be the statement that currently there is no way to configure any variation in that policy.

Assuming that is a correct statement, I'm happy to close the query?

nic

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February 3, 2013

Nic,

There is currently no complexity requirement for Confluence. If this feature is implemented we will need to document how to set and enforce this requirement. I will add a private comment about making sure we document this functionality once it is relased.

Nic Hart February 3, 2013

Wasn't sure what you meant by 'no complexity requirement'. But by experiment I discover that even a single character is allowed! But not null. That is what I mean by the complexity requirement. Though it is certainly minimal!

thanks and signing off

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