Password protection for link shares should suggest autogenerated passwords
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- Android @tobiasKaminsky
- nextcloud/android#9241
- Desktop @camilasan
- nextcloud/desktop#5944
- iOS @marinofaggiana
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Currently when you want to password-protect a link, you have to think of a password yourself. Which is possibly not secure, or not easy to remember. This is especially useful when password-protection is mandatory cause enforced by the admin.
We should help people by autogenerating a default password whenever you check "Password-protect", until it is changed. It should be passwords which can be easily communicated over other channels, so maybe something made of other words like:
house right carton keyboard
Or something like that – you know what I mean. ;)
What do you think @nextcloud/designers @nextcloud/security?
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Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the server-side link-share password-protection flow and reviewing its existing validation and sharing tests. Done means enabling password protection suggests a communicable autogenerated password until the user changes it, while preserving mandatory administrator-enforced protection.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- authentication, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100