edward_plainview

Prevent password resets or changes to specific users or user roles. User-specific exceptions to the sweeping user roles can be set. The user’s password is then protected from modification:
<ul>
<li>In the user’s profile editor</li>
<li>Using the password reset link in the login window</li>
</ul>
The settings are available to either the super admin on the network, or normal admins on a single installation. If you wish to hide the settings completely, put the following in your wp-config.php:
<pre><code>define( 'PLAINVIEW_PROTECT_PASSWORDS_HIDE', true );
</code></pre>
Requires PHP 5.4.

Plainview Protect Passwords

I love that is works well with network sites so I don't have to replicate my settings across each of my sites. 

The only issue I ran into is that only network roles are added to the network settings. Maybe it's by design, but it would be awesome if it picked up the roles from the sites because that is where plugins like User Role Editor and WooCommerce have registered them. In order to protect these I would have to modify the settings for each of my network sites separately. Annoying but totally doable. 

Thanks for the quick and easy solution today!

Gets the job done

Selectively protect passwords from being reset or modified.

Rik Lewis

bettersecurity

This plugin sets a default minimum password length of 10 characters, to ensure that passwords are suitably long that they are hard to guess. However, it does not insist on any complexity rules, such as digits and special characters, as length is the most important thing when making a password hard to guess.
This plugin uses Troy Hunt’s <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords" rel="nofollow ugc">Pwned Passwords API</a> in order to check a user’s potential password against a corpus of breached passwords.
The password itself is never sent to any third party, only a partial hash is sent. This means that the password entered will always be private.
As an added bonus, this plugin also upgrades the hashing algorithm used when storing your password in the database. This is a secure one-way hash created using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt" rel="nofollow ugc">Bcrypt</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon2" rel="nofollow ugc">Argon2</a> algorithm.

Better Passwords

I use this plugin on all of my sites - it not only checks if a used password is included in a haveibeenpwned.com leak, but also forces Wordpress to use more secure hashing algorithms for saving passwords. Highly recommended!

Recommended plugin


Perfect for my needs, as it doesn't attempt to enforce overly complex password rules, it just allows me to set a minimum length, and checks new passwords against Have I Been Pwned to make sure it's not been previously included in a breach. Can also store passwords using stronger hashing algorithms than the WordPress default.


Perfect for my needs

Stop use of a bad passwords, including those in the Have I Been Pwned? breached password database

Plainview Protect Passwords vs Better Passwords