OWASP / OWASP/SecurityShepherd
The ability to reset other admins passwords
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Enhancement
Good First Issue
Platform
- Dominant language
- Java
- Stars
- 1.5k
- Forks
- 515
- Avg merge
- 3h 46m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
Description
Currently, if an admin forgets their password it cannot be changed. You must manually downgrade the admin to a player through the database, change their password through the UI, and then re-elevate them to an admin.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the admin password-change flow in the UI and the database role handling described in the issue. Done means an admin can change or reset another admin's password without downgrading that account to a player and later restoring its admin role.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- authentication, authorization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100