#1646 allow setting password when adding user
Closed: Fixed None Opened 12 years ago by admiyo.

While password is not a required field, a user account is not usable without a password for the vast majority of the use-cases. The add user dialog box should allow the setting of the user's password.

Design considerations:

  1. It should be optional.
  2. It should allow the end user to opt to show clear text passwords.
  3. These two decision should persist if the user chooses "add and add another" for adding a large number of users.
  4. If the user does not show clear text passwords, they should have to type the password twice. Form validation should report if the two field values are different at each keystroke.

This depends on how we display the required & optional fields (see ticket #1696).

Item #2 could be a security issue. In CLI the password has to be typed twice too without showing the password.

In item #4 validating the password in each keystroke will generate unnecessary error message before the password is completely typed. It's better to verify the password on submit.

Metadata Update from @admiyo:
- Issue assigned to edewata
- Issue set to the milestone: FreeIPA 3.0 Core Effort - 2011/10

7 years ago

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