Topic: Password length

[cousin-it]

  I am running SME 7.2 and it works great so far (only been running for about 1 week). I did a restore from a 7.1 SME box. I had set password strength for Users to NONE. Now that I have changed to 7.2 it is requiring 7 character passwords again. I went throught the same proceedure to set them to NONE on the 7.2 box, but it still requires 7 characters. Anybody got any idea why this is happening? How do I fix it? I can show password strength and it says Users=none.

[slords]

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3039

[SoftDux]

This thread has a working solution to the problem

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=38078.0

[byte]

This thread has a working solution to the problem

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=38078.0

But not recommended, you could cause problems at a latter date.

[SoftDux]

what kind of problems? If I may ask?

[raem]

what kind of problems?

Read
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3039

[raem]

I went throught the same proceedure to set them to NONE on the 7.2 box, but it still requires 7 characters. Anybody got any idea why this is happening? How do I fix it? I can show password strength and it says Users=none.

It doesn't need fixing, what you see is correct behaviour. None means a minimum length 7 character password that is not tested.
See
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:FAQ#Password_Strength_Checking