For example, a password consists of letters, numbers, symbols.

Industry best/recommended practices (such as championed by NIST) no longer recommending requiring “LUDS” (Lower + Upper + Digit + Symbol) or any other character class requirements. They have moved strictly to minimum length restrictions as a best practice. See for example this blog post from NIST from five years ago: [image] Mic Drop — Announcing the New Special Publication 800-63 Suite! More than a year in the making, after a large, cross-industry effort, we are proud to announce that the new Special Publication (SP) 800-63 IS. NOW. FINAL. With your help, Electronic Authentication Guidelines has evolved into Digital Identity... It summarizes changes in guidance, and to the best of my knowledge Discourse has implemented the recommended practices.

I’m not sure I understand the premise of the question? To strengthen a password you would indeed include a mix of letters in different cases, numbers and symbols. Preferably random, and unique for each site/login. A password manager is a useful tool as well. This is general password advice though, and not specific to Discourse.

Maybe you have misunderstood me. What I mean is that I created a discourse forum. When new users register, I need to restrict their passwords to three types I can only adjust the length of the password from the system Settings

I think I see. You want to enforce users to have passwords that include a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols. I’m afraid I don’t know of a way to do that currently.

Well, thank you all the same Is there anyone who can solve this problem？

I think these are the only settings: [image] [image] Imho, this is a reasonable #feature request? The downside of making passwords tougher to be acceptable is that you might exasperate users during sign-up and actually stop them completing it? The priority of this will surely vary by community? @1378434153 another way of solving this might be to prevent local login and force a social/auth login which has a stronger regime. Another thing to consider is forcing 2FA on all accounts.

Thanks.But I don’t need two-factor authentication

But maybe your users need, or want? That should be the first priority, not yours need.

Could you not mandate longer passwords and achieve the same thing? [image]

It’s not a problem. Having arbitrary rules about what kinds of characters there are doesn’t help and just annoys users. Passwords are also checked against a known password database (or so I think I remember). It is a good bet that the people who made up the rules about passwords have spent more time and energy researching best practices than most people have. I suggest you find something else to worry about. If you want, for $250 to $1000 you can post in #marketplace and cd whatever rules you want imposed on your users.

And there is another point too that quite often stays under radar — all of this are very anglo-centric things. What do you think… if and when I’m using short and quite easy password in finnish, in swedish, in german or actually using any other language than english, how fast a script/bot can break it? Sure, that doesn’t help in the States, Canada, UK etc, but the world is much wider :wink: That is meaning one thing: everything is done because english speaking users are using passwords like password or qwerty :rofl: :man_facepalming: But yes, I’m a little bit tired when an admin says I can’t use a password like ÄitiniMun because there is not several numbers or something else. Too simple passwords aren’t issue. Using same email/password combination in several services is.

How can I enforce user password complexity?

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1378434153 (Tom) October 27, 2022, 1:52am 17

Okay, I get it. Maybe it’s not a reasonable request after all

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How can I enforce user password complexity?

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