Closed Bug 1634787 Opened 5 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Honour the `pattern` attribute when generating a password

Categories

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect, P3)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Password Manager
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: MattN, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug,
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Details

(Whiteboard: [passwords:generation])

The pattern attribute specifies a regular expression the form control's value should match. If our generated password doesn't match it we should try other generated passwords.

TBD: how do we honour the requirements? Easiest would be to have many different formats available and test the pattern on each of them at different lengths until one works. e.g.

  • current character classes
  • add some symbols (see bug 1559986)
  • remove numbers from the current classes
  • remove letters from the current classes
Severity: -- → S3

There are too many edge cases and pattern in password field is a questionable feature we would not like to encourage.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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