Password Validator

Note: this is an abstract component, that cannot be instantiated.

Password Validators are responsible for determining whether a proposed password is acceptable for use and could include checks like ensuring it meets minimum length requirements, that it has an appropriate range of characters, or that it is not in the history.

The password policy for a user specifies the set of password validators that should be used whenever that user provides a new password. In order to activate a password validator, the corresponding configuration entry must be enabled, and the DN of that entry should be included in the password-validator attribute of the password policy in which you want that validator active. All password validator configuration entries must contain the password-validator structural objectclass.

Direct Subcomponents

The following Password Validators are available in the server :

• Attribute Value Password Validator
• Character Set Password Validator
• Dictionary Password Validator
• Length Based Password Validator
• Repeated Characters Password Validator
• Similarity Based Password Validator
• Unique Characters Password Validator

These Password Validators inherit from the properties described below.

Relations To this Component

The following components have a direct AGGREGATION relation TO Password Validators :

• Password Policy

Properties

A description of each property follows.

Basic Properties

enabled

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