[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #57540: make WordPress password management more “understandable”?

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#57540: make WordPress password management more “understandable”?
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 Reporter:  ludovicsclain           |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement             |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                  |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Login and Registration  |     Version:  6.1.1
 Severity:  normal                  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                          |     Focuses:
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Comment (by ludovicsclain):

 Replying to [comment:1 georgestephanis]:
 > I think this may have gotten lost in the Application Passwords component
 -- when this (by my reading) is intending to address actual password
 change flow.
 >
 > I'm adjusting it to the "Users / Login and Registration" component,
 which I believe would be the relevant place for discussing user password
 change flows.
 >
 > I believe that generally when a password field is submitted to the site
 with a different password than a password manager expects, it will kick
 off a flow in a password manager to update the existing password, but it
 could vary based on the password manager being used.
 >
 > I'd be curious to see a "proof of concept" plugin for an improved, more
 explicit flow, to serve as a proposal for this iteration in core!

 Thank you @georgestephanis for considering my request, I can indeed think
 of a plugin improving all of this, but by doing some research I realize
 that solutions have already been mentioned on other tickets but that they
 have not been followed:

 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/39638#comment:23

 Notably when @estelaris explains that his host implemented the way cPanel
 manages passwords in WordPress, this is the direction I was proposing.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57540#comment:2>
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