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Change password
This form is used to set the password of the currently logged in user.
Authorization Roles required
This form is available to all users regardless of role.
How to access change password
Change password is accessed from the User settings Set login password menu option.
How to use this form
Enter your login credentials and choice of new password and click save to make the change.
You can click on the eye icon to conceal your entry from onlookers.
What is a secure password?
Long, not complicated
Current (2022) security industry best practices around passwords focus entirely on length and not 'complexity' and AyaNova fully supports this by allowing very lengthy passwords and not requiring any special characters.
For the highest security ensure your password is as long as you can comfortably remember without writing it down.
We recommend using a lengthy but easily remembered phrase as a password, for example a song lyric or a line from a poem that is 32 characters or more of words is currently extremely difficult to hack by brute force methods.
There is no security advantage in modern practice to using mixed case, unusual symbols or numbers in your password as brute force hacking techniques try all enterable characters anyway.
It is more secure to have a lengthy password of plain alphabet text than it is to have a shorter one with a mix of numbers and characters.
For example: this password somewhereovertherainbowskiesareblue is far more secure than this password Ab3#@%5 and easier to remember without writing it down.
Impersonal
Make sure you have nothing personal in your password such as a relative or pet's name or relative's date of birth etc.
Password manager
Many people prefer to use a password manager utility and AyaNova supports password managers by allowing copy and paste in the password field, clearly identifying the fields on the login form as password type HTML field in the page markup so the password manager can detect it to autotype the values and including an "eye" icon that you can use to reveal or conceal the password as you enter it.