Easy-to-guess passwords are all too often the means by which intruders gain unauthorised access. It’s useful to be able to audit the passwords in use on your site – especially for user accounts with administrative privileges.
Ideally your WordPress maintenance support plans site should have a robust (but user friendly) password policy (see my previous post: Password Policies and WordPress maintenance support plans). However, this is not always possible.Tags: acquia WordPress planet
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Checking for Bad Passwords in Cheap WordPress maintenance support plans to Avoid Site Compromise
