The Unique Characters Password Validator is used to determine whether a proposed password is acceptable based on the number of unique characters that it contains.
This validator can be used to prevent simple passwords that contain only a few characters like "aabbcc" or "abcabc".
The Unique Characters Password Validator component inherits from the Password Validator
A description of each property follows.
| Basic Properties: | Advanced Properties: |
|---|---|
| ↓ case-sensitive-validation | ↓ java-class |
| ↓ enabled | |
| ↓ min-unique-characters |
| Description | Indicates whether this password validator should treat password characters in a case-sensitive manner. A value of true indicates that the validator does not consider a capital letter to be the same as its lower-case counterpart. A value of false indicates that the validator ignores differences in capitalization when looking at the number of unique characters in the password. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | true false |
| Multi-valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None |
| Advanced Property | No |
| Read-only | No |
| 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 |
| Description | Specifies the minimum number of unique characters that a password will be allowed to contain. A value of zero indicates that no minimum value is enforced. |
| Default Value | None |
| Allowed Values | An integer value. Lower value is 0. |
| Multi-valued | No |
| Required | Yes |
| Admin Action Required | None |
| Advanced Property | No |
| Read-only | No |
| Description | Specifies the fully-qualified name of the Java class that provides the password validator implementation. |
| Default Value | org.opends.server.extensions.UniqueCharactersPasswordValidator |
| 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 Unique Characters Password Validator must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to this setting to take effect |
| Advanced Property | Yes |
| Read-only | No |