Password validation

julesdj

11 months ago

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  11 months ago

  Yes! You can pass in your own password field directly into your auth-enabled config, and whatever you define on it (including custom validate function) will be merged into the default password field

  
  

  
  

  just make sure you have it named appropriately

  
  

  
  

  hmm wait i may have spoken too soon. that works for any other field

  besides

  password

  
  

  
  

  it looks like right now this is not possible, but it would be a great feature to add

  
  

  
  

  and a simple PR to make if you were interested in contributing

  
  

  
  

  I could help document the work necessary to implement it and then you could make it happen if you were up for it. Otherwise we can get to it at some point - just not sure when

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  julesdj

  11 months ago

  Thanks for the response, I really appreciate the work you guys are doing here. Whenever you have the time please do document the work necessary. I will be happy to help implement it.

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  kaspartr

  9 months ago

  Hi, is there any update on this topic?

  
  

  Is it possible to enforce password strength without creating custom auth strategy?

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  9 months ago

  I will add this as a feature request right now and tag it on the roadmap

  
  

  
  

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/discussions/1713
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  DU DA

  6 months ago

  Are there any news to this topic? I need to validate my password (min. length, has to include at least one number, one special character,...)

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  jarrod_not_jared

  Payload Team

  6 months ago

  In the meantime you could validate the password field with a beforeValidate hook on the collection. Throw an error if it does not meet your requirements

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  kaspartr

  6 months ago

  How can one access password field of the document in the Collection hook?

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  jarrod_not_jared

  Payload Team

  6 months ago

  If the operation is create or update it will live on

  data
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  DU DA

  6 months ago

  We created a workaround:

  
  
  hooks: { beforeOperation: [ ({args, operation}) => { if ((operation == 'update' || operation == 'create') && args?.data.password) { const {password} = args?.data const passwordLength = 18 // check if the password is at least X chars long and contains 3 of 4 conditions: // lowercase / uppercase / digit / sepcial character const regexString =

  ^((?=.

  [a-z])(?=.

  [A-Z])(?=.

  \d)|(?=.

  [a-z])(?=.

  \d)(?=.

  [\W

  ])|(?=.[a-z])(?=.[A-Z])(?=.*[\W

  ])|(?=.

  [A-Z])(?=.

  \d)(?=.*[\W_])).{${passwordLength},}$

  const regex = new RegExp(regexString) const isValid = regex.test(password) if (!isValid) { throw new APIError('Error Message', httpStatus.BAD_REQUEST) } } return args }, ], },
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  jarrod_not_jared

  Payload Team

  6 months ago

  Yes exactly ⬆️

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  jamesryan

  2 months ago

  For anyone else visiting this thread

  
  
  

  I found that upon enacting the password validation -> previously "in-secure" password users could no longer log in so because we're unable to access the req.url within a

  beforeOperation

  hook I tested to see if the

  req.user

  is populated ( would be upon login )

  
  
  

  export const checkPasswordStrength: BeforeOperationHook = ({ args, operation }) => {
      if ((operation === 'update' || operation === 'create') && args?.data.password && args?.req.user !== undefined) {
          const { password } = args?.data;
          const errors: string[] = [];
  
          if (password && password.length <= 15) {
              errors.push('Password must be at least 15 characters long');
          }
  
          const upperCaseMatches = (password.match(/[A-Z]/g) || []).length;
          const lowerCaseMatches = (password.match(/[a-z]/g) || []).length;
          const hasNumber = /\d/.test(password);
          const hasSymbols = /[$-/:-?{-~!"^_`\[\]]/.test(password);
  
          if (upperCaseMatches < 2) {
              errors.push('Password must have at least two uppercase letters');
          }
  
          if (lowerCaseMatches < 2) {
              errors.push('Password must have at least two lowercase letters');
          }
  
          if (!hasNumber) {
              errors.push('Password must include at least one number');
          }
  
          if (!hasSymbols) {
              errors.push('Password must include at least one symbol');
          }
  
          if (errors.length > 1) {
              const errorMessage = `Your password is not secure: ${errors.join(', ')}`;
              throw Error(errorMessage);
          } else if (errors.length === 1) {
              throw Error(errors[0]);
          }
  
          return args;
      }
  };