From e35b0a869fc18fb6ed28e968cd2840d1d58955f2 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: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:30:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/10525

---
 src/install.js | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/install.js b/src/install.js
index 97e981d071..ba0f13e7be 100644
--- a/src/install.js
+++ b/src/install.js
@@ -342,6 +342,14 @@ async function createAdmin() {
 		try {
 			User.isPasswordValid(results.password);
 		} catch (err) {
+			const [namespace, key] = err.message.slice(2, -2).split(':', 2);
+			if (namespace && key && err.message.startsWith('[[') && err.message.endsWith(']]')) {
+				const lang = require(path.join(__dirname, `../public/language/en-GB/${namespace}`));
+				if (lang && lang[key]) {
+					err.message = lang[key];
+				}
+			}
+
 			winston.warn(`Password error, please try again. ${err.message}`);
 			return await retryPassword(results);
 		}