Extension:PwnedPasswords
PwnedPasswords Release status: experimental |
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Implementation | User identity |
Description | Checks passwords against the Pwned Passwords list. |
Author(s) | Platonidestalk |
Compatibility policy | Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible. |
MediaWiki | 1.32+ |
PHP | 5.3+ |
Database changes | No |
License | No license specified |
Download | |
Quarterly downloads | 1 (Ranked 148th) |
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Provides command-line scripts to detect passwords which have been leaked in some past password breach, and thus protect against password reuse attacks.
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The extension can be retrieved directly from Git [?]:
- Browse code
- Some extensions have tags for stable releases.
- Browse tags
- Select the tag
- Click "snapshot"
- Each branch is associated with a past MediaWiki release. There is also a "master" branch containing the latest alpha version (might require an alpha version of MediaWiki).
- Browse branches
- Select a branch name
- Click "Continue"
Extract the snapshot and place it in the extensions/PwnedPasswords/ directory of your MediaWiki installation.
If you are familiar with Git and have shell access to your server, you can also obtain the extension as follows:
cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/PwnedPasswords.git