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Upgrade password policy

Open arthurpar06 opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

arthurpar06 avatar Jul 26 '24 14:07 arthurpar06

⚠️ GitGuardian has uncovered 4 secrets following the scan of your pull request.

Please consider investigating the findings and remediating the incidents. Failure to do so may lead to compromising the associated services or software components.

Since your pull request originates from a forked repository, GitGuardian is not able to associate the secrets uncovered with secret incidents on your GitGuardian dashboard. Skipping this check run and merging your pull request will create secret incidents on your GitGuardian dashboard.

🔎 Detected hardcoded secrets in your pull request
GitGuardian id GitGuardian status Secret Commit Filename
- - Generic Password a2728db4e119ef7b26a4a03433a158c3adb954c3 tests/RegistrationTest.php View secret
- - Generic Password 993c93220c5ae07da4b18ba670fc85a35c74f1e9 tests/RegistrationTest.php View secret
- - Generic Password 993c93220c5ae07da4b18ba670fc85a35c74f1e9 tests/RegistrationTest.php View secret
- - Generic Password a2728db4e119ef7b26a4a03433a158c3adb954c3 tests/RegistrationTest.php View secret
🛠 Guidelines to remediate hardcoded secrets
  1. Understand the implications of revoking this secret by investigating where it is used in your code.
  2. Replace and store your secrets safely. Learn here the best practices.
  3. Revoke and rotate these secrets.
  4. If possible, rewrite git history. Rewriting git history is not a trivial act. You might completely break other contributing developers' workflow and you risk accidentally deleting legitimate data.

To avoid such incidents in the future consider


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gitguardian[bot] avatar Jul 26 '24 14:07 gitguardian[bot]

Come on, minimum 8 chars, mixed with numbers, upper-lower case ? 😿

Will you add a forced password change every week too, like we are logging in to a super secret service with tons of sensitive data, credit card transactions, bank accounts, missile passwords etc. ? 😆

Jokes aside, is this really necessary ?

FatihKoz avatar Jul 28 '24 09:07 FatihKoz

This follows the NIST recommendations for passwords, which is important in my opinion.

I hope the NASA's passwords are longer than 8 characters 😄. More seriously, even if we don’t store highly critical data, we still have people’s personal information, and from my perspective, they deserve to have their data at least minimally secure. Additionally, it eliminates weak passwords like "password" or "admin" and encourages users to get into the habit of using stronger passwords.

I feel like this level of security is a good compromise between not being too annoying for the user and still providing some protection. We don't require symbols or very long passwords, just a number, an uppercase, and a lowercase.

arthurpar06 avatar Jul 28 '24 10:07 arthurpar06