@dsimonse can you please confirm which Joomla! Version auto set the password? I've never known this to be a core feature of Joomla! Nor can I see it as a confirm option anywhere.

What you describe is a feature of Wordpress however.

Hi,
Well I'm not using Wordpress for sure. Been using Joomla for about 2 years now and I never had to register a password for a user, and the user got a password with the welcome email. So every Joomla version for the past 2 years.

You are very right this is a mistake change. I'll look into it

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Well I'm not using Wordpress for sure. Been using Joomla for about 2 years now and I never had to register a password for a user, and the user got a password with the welcome email. So every Joomla version for the past 2 years.
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@dsimonse I've just checked J3.7.4 fresh install and these fields are not required on the backend. See:

Can you reinstall Joomla! Core files and check you do not have a custom profile or registration plugin installed?

I reinstalled the core-files with no change. I haven't installed any new plugins and I don't know if ACYMailing could change this behaviour (installed an update recently)?

I'm afraid you will need to test / check your 3rd party plugins and also check with english language although that shouldn't make a difference.

Many thanks
Tony

Will contact ACYMailing

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Hi,
Opened a case with ACYMAiling and here's their response:

Hi,

If you disable AcyMailing from your backend (http://rojteatern.nu/administrator/index.php?option=com_installer&view=manage) and then try to add user, the password is still mandatory, so I'm sorry but it seems that this doesn't come from AcyMailing..

Regards,

Alexandre - Acyba help desk team
support@acyba.com

So, now I don't know what to do. Can I change a key in the DB to get the fields to not be mandatory?

//Dennis

I tested with acymailing and couldn't replicate it.

As originally suggested disable non core plugins.

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Opened a case with ACYMAiling and here's their response:
Hi,
If you disable AcyMailing from your backend (http://rojteatern.nu/administrator/index.php?option=com_installer&view=manage) and then try to add user, the password is still mandatory, so I'm sorry but it seems that this doesn't come from AcyMailing..
Regards,
Alexandre - Acyba help desk team
support@acyba.com
So, now I don't know what to do. Can I change a key in the DB to get the fields to not be mandatory?
//Dennis
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Please reopen, since I got response fron ACYMailing.

//Dennis

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It's a non core issue? I cannot replicate in any J release that the fields are mandatory.

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Please reopen, since I got response fron ACYMailing.

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So, now I don't know what to do. Can I change a key in the DB to get the fields to not be mandatory?

As originally suggested disable non core plugins.

It is not an issue with acymailing or with any non core plugins

As soon as you change/set a password option such as number of special characters then the password field is required. This is because the random password generator cannot create a password that satisfies those rules so the user would not be able to login.

So if you want to have password as not required and use generated passwords then you have to reset the password options

@brianteeman I agree, however in my tests the require asterisk was never shown when doing as you suggest. In his example the asterisk is there, the only thing that changed for me was it went to red for required in that scenario.

@tonypartridge set the number of uppercase characters to 5 and you will see it changes to required

Nope still shows as this.

However, I have just tried it on a clients site and noticed all fields are required by default. so will inspect it a bit more.

So what is the default settings?

Hi, ok changed to "min 4" but no change. In fact the registration still opts for 6 characters.
"Use at least 6 characters, uppercase and lowercase letter, numbers and at least one special character."

The text seems to be related to RSFirewall. If I disable that the text dissapears but the password field are still mandatory.

I've found the bug, looking into it now.

Ok so as a fix for you, go to:

Joomla! Plugins -> User - Joomla! -> click save.

@brianteeman @dsimonse this was fixed 9 days ago:
dbc7a4a

The issue occurs with certain upgrades of Joomla! where certain parameters are not set within the user plugin. Therefore the get request fails and falls to its default value. Which for some reason was 0 in the plugin. Next release of Joomla! will fix this.

Thanks! I disabled the "send email" and re-enabled it as per suggestion from RS and that fixed it as well.
But effectingly I clicked "save" :)

Passing comment for @brianteeman @dsimonse @tonypartridge

We've also been talking about this issue for the past week at the Joomla forum. Has nothing to do with AcyMailing (as @brianteeman correctly points out) but see https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=706&t=953424

@sozzled this has been solved. Please see my last comments.

Yes, Tony, I understand the underlying cause has been addressed. I was only making an observation in passing that additional background information (which has been around for longer than since @dsimonse opened the issue here) is available at the forum. Aside from that, I agree there's no need to flog a dead horse.

Thanks! Very much. I had same problem, and was lucky to find this conversation.
"Joomla! Plugins -> User - Joomla! -> click save" helped also in my case !