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".
The Repeated Characters Password Validator component inherits from the Password Validator
The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:
| Basic Properties: | Advanced Properties: |
|---|---|
| description | None |
| enabled | |
| validator-requirement-description | |
| validator-failure-message | |
| max-consecutive-length | |
| case-sensitive-validation | |
| character-set |
| 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 |
| 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 |
validator-requirement-description
| Description | Specifies a message that can be used to describe the requirements imposed by this password validator to end users. If a value is provided for this property, then it will override any description that may have otherwise been generated by the validator. |
| Default Value | The requirement description will be automatically generated by the password validator. |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| Description | Specifies a message that may be provided to the end user in the event that a proposed password is rejected by this validator. If a value is provided for this property, then it will override any failure message that may have otherwise been generated by the validator. |
| Default Value | The requirement description will be automatically generated by the password validator. |
| Allowed Values | A string |
| Multi-Valued | No |
| Required | No |
| Admin Action Required | None. Modification requires no further action |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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}