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Repeated Characters Password Validator

Note: this component is designated "advanced", which means that objects of this type are not expected to be created or altered in most environments. If you believe that such a change is necessary, you may want to contact UnboundID support in order to understand the potential impact of that change.

The Repeated Characters Password Validator is used to determine whether a proposed password is acceptable based on the number of times any character appear consecutively in a password value.

It ensures that user passwords do not contain strings of the same character repeated several times, like "aaaaaa" or "aaabbb".

Parent Component
Properties
dsconfig Usage

Parent Component

The Repeated Characters Password Validator component inherits from the Password Validator

Properties

The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:


Basic Properties: Advanced Properties:
↓ description  None
↓ enabled
↓ max-consecutive-length
↓ case-sensitive-validation
↓ character-set

Basic Properties

description

Description
A description for this Password Validator
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
A string
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

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. Modification requires no further action

max-consecutive-length

Description
Specifies the maximum number of times that any character can appear consecutively in a password value. A value of zero indicates that no maximum limit is enforced.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
An integer value. Lower limit is 0.
Multi-Valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

case-sensitive-validation

Description
Indicates whether this password validator should treat password characters in a case-sensitive manner. If the value of this property is false, the validator ignores any differences in capitalization when looking for consecutive characters in the password. If the value is true, the validator considers a character to be repeating only if all consecutive occurrences use the same capitalization.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

character-set

Description
Specifies a set of characters that should be considered equivalent for the purpose of this password validator. This can be used, for example, to ensure that passwords contain no more than three consecutive digits. If one or more character sets are defined, then any characters contained in a password which aren't in any of the defined sets will be considered in their own set containing just that character (i.e., no individual character may be repeated more than max-consecutive-length times).
If this option is used, then no character may be included in multiple character sets. If the case-sensitive-validation property has a value of "false", then uppercase and lowercase versions of the same character may not be present in the same or different sets.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
A string
Multi-Valued
Yes
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action


dsconfig Usage

To list the configured Password Validators:

dsconfig list-password-validators
     [--property {propertyName}] ...

To view the configuration for an existing Password Validator:

dsconfig get-password-validator-prop
     --validator-name {name}
     [--tab-delimited]
     [--script-friendly]
     [--property {propertyName}] ...

To update the configuration for an existing Password Validator:

dsconfig set-password-validator-prop
     --validator-name {name}
     (--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}
     [(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...

To create a new Repeated Characters Password Validator:

dsconfig create-password-validator
     --validator-name {name}
     --type repeated-characters
     --set enabled:{propertyValue}
     --set max-consecutive-length:{propertyValue}
     --set case-sensitive-validation:{propertyValue}
     [--set {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...

To delete an existing Password Validator:

dsconfig delete-password-validator
     --validator-name {name}