To greatly reduce the risk of password theft, we're encouraging all Moodle site admins to set a 'password salt'. Please see the password salting documentation for details.
A password salt will be set automatically for all new 1.8.11 and 1.9.7 installations (due for release very soon) and admins will be strongly recommended to add a password salt manually when upgrading to these versions (source: Moodle 1.9.7 release notes).
To ensure everyone understands password salting, it would be great if you could help by translating the password salting documentation into your language. To create the page in the documentation wiki for your language, simply use the URL
http://docs.moodle.org/xx/report/security/report_security_check_passwordsaltmain
and replace xx with your language code. For example, for French (fr), the URL would be
http://docs.moodle.org/fr/report/security/report_security_check_passwordsaltmain
You need to make sure you are logged into your documentation wiki then you can translate the English documentation as it appears here: http://docs.moodle.org/en/report/security/report_security_check_passwordsaltmain.
A link to the password salting documentation will be provided on the notifications page in Moodle 1.8.11 and 1.9.7 and also in the security overview report. Thus French Moodle site admins will be provided with the link http://docs.moodle.org/fr/report/security/report_security_check_passwordsaltmain.
If you'd like to help translating the password salting documentation, but are confused about what to do, please let me know by replying to this discussion so I can provide further explanation (or perhaps someone else can describe things better!)
Thanks to Iñaki for translating the documentation into Spanish already, and to everyone else who is able to help out.
). When you upgrade your sites you'll find the exact link on the notifications page and in the security overview report.
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