how to increase password lenght and reserve usernames?

Question

hello.

what changes has to be made to increase the minimum password lenght on a user registration?

also; when there is a need to reserv usernames, is good procedure to write handles on the database without fill other fields or that cause security issues?

having donne that, the usernames apear on users lists after being registered on database but can be deleted and kept on table. is this a expected behaviour?

is there other good way to make usernames reserved / not possible to be registered on front end?

thanks.

Answer 1

Password length: put this in your qa-config.php (with your chosen length instead of 8):

    define('QA_MIN_PASSWORD_LEN', 8);

Reserving usernames: one method is to set up a filter plugin as described here and put in the usernames you wish to reserve, so no one can sign up with those. When you finally want to use those account names then remove the names from the plugin.