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Attribute Value Password Validator

The Attribute Value Password Validator attempts to determine whether a proposed password is acceptable for use by determining whether that password is contained in any attribute within the user's entry.

It can be configured to look in all attributes or in a specified subset of attributes.

Parent Component

The Attribute Value Password Validator component inherits from the Password Validator

Properties

A description of each property follows.


Basic Properties: Advanced Properties:
↓ check-substrings ↓ java-class
↓ enabled
↓ match-attribute
↓ min-substring-length
↓ test-reversed-password

Basic Properties

check-substrings

Description
Indicates whether this password validator is to match portions of the password string against attribute values.If "false" then only match the entire password against attribute values otherwise ("true") check whether the password contains attribute values.
Default Value
true
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

enabled

Description
Indicates whether the password validator is enabled for use.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

match-attribute

Description
Specifies the name(s) of the attribute(s) whose values should be checked to determine whether they match the provided password. If no values are provided, then the server checks if the proposed password matches the value of any attribute in the user's entry.
Default Value
All attributes in the user entry will be checked.
Allowed Values
The name of an attribute type defined in the server schema.
Multi-valued
Yes
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

min-substring-length

Description
Indicates the minimal length of the substring within the password in case substring checking is enabled.If "check-substrings" option is set to true, then this parameter defines the length of the smallest word which should be used for substring matching. Use with caution because values below 3 might disqualify valid passwords.
Default Value
5
Allowed Values
An integer value. Lower value is 0.
Multi-valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No

test-reversed-password

Description
Indicates whether this password validator should test the reversed value of the provided password as well as the order in which it was given.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None
Advanced Property
No
Read-only
No


Advanced Properties

java-class

Description
Specifies the fully-qualified name of the Java class that provides the password validator implementation.
Default Value
org.opends.server.extensions.AttributeValuePasswordValidator
Allowed Values
A java class that implements or extends the class(es) :
org.opends.server.api.PasswordValidator
Multi-valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
The Attribute Value Password Validator must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to this setting to take effect
Advanced Property
Yes
Read-only
No