From dca957af7210156af72555bb8544fde47e756376 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:14:06 -0700
Subject: BUGFIX: new password needs to be at least 4 characters long

added a check for the length of the new password, so that empty passwords are not allowed.

Signed-off-by: Arun Persaud <arun@nubati.net>
---
 include/preferences.php | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/preferences.php b/include/preferences.php
index 0382193..613d965 100644
--- a/include/preferences.php
+++ b/include/preferences.php
@@ -103,10 +103,14 @@ if(myisset("password0") &&  $_REQUEST["password0"]!="" )
     if(!( ($password == $oldpasswd) || DB_check_recovery_passwords($oldpasswd,$email) ))
       $changed_password = -1;
 
-    /* check if new passwords are types the same twice */
+    /* check if new password has been typed in correctly */
     if($_REQUEST["password1"] != $_REQUEST["password2"] )
       $changed_password = -2;
 
+    /* check if new password is long enough */
+    if(strlen($_REQUEST["password1"])<4)
+      $changed_password = -3;
+
     if($changed_password==1)
       {
 	DB_query("UPDATE User SET password='".md5($_REQUEST["password1"]).
@@ -182,6 +186,9 @@ echo "    <tr><td>Password(old):         </td><td>",
   "<input type=\"password\" id=\"password0\" name=\"password0\" size=\"20\" maxlength=\"30\" />";
 switch($changed_password)
   {
+  case '-3':
+    echo "The new passwords is not long enough (you need at least 4 characters).";
+    break;
   case '-2':
     echo "The new passwords don't match.";
     break;
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