Unique Characters Password Validator

The Unique Characters Password Validator determines 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".

Parent Component Properties dsconfig Usage

Parent Component

The Unique 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
 validator-requirement-description
 validator-failure-message
 min-unique-characters
 case-sensitive-validation

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

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

validator-failure-message

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

min-unique-characters

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 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. 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. 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 Unique Characters Password Validator:

dsconfig create-password-validator
     --validator-name {name}
     --type unique-characters
     --set enabled:{propertyValue}
     --set min-unique-characters:{propertyValue}
     --set case-sensitive-validation:{propertyValue}
     [--set {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...

To delete an existing Password Validator:

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