From 0d698a079eeab8481c4c9a72b3a0a6b8310c4d2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <barisusakli@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 22:48:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: #8533, validate and retry password during setup

---
 src/install.js | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/install.js b/src/install.js
index 78410e98fce1..823f4ca24576 100644
--- a/src/install.js
+++ b/src/install.js
@@ -268,7 +268,6 @@ function createAdmin(callback) {
 	var User = require('./user');
 	var Groups = require('./groups');
 	var password;
-	var meta = require('./meta');
 
 	winston.warn('No administrators have been detected, running initial user setup\n');
 
@@ -309,8 +308,10 @@ function createAdmin(callback) {
 			return retryPassword(results);
 		}
 
-		if (results.password.length < meta.config.minimumPasswordLength) {
-			winston.warn('Password too short, please try again');
+		try {
+			User.isPasswordValid(results.password);
+		} catch (err) {
+			winston.warn('Password error, please try again. ' + err.message);
 			return retryPassword(results);
 		}