Feature request: Add fields for current and new passwords to askForPassword()
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- api, authentication
Research direction
Start by locating the askForPassword() entry point and review related issue #37 for existing context. Define how current and new password inputs should be represented and prompted, using the attached example as a reference; done means the API supports password-change requests with a clear prompt flow.
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Description
Many databases require periodic changing of passwords. It would be very useful to have an argument to askForPassword() to accept input of current and new passwords, perhaps askForPassword(change = TRUE). The prompt box could look something like this:

This is related to #37.
Thanks!
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- Forks
- 37
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