Directory Services 7.2.5

Unique Characters Password Validator

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".

Parent

The Unique Characters Password Validator object inherits from Password Validator.

Unique Characters Password Validator properties

You can use configuration expressions to set property values at startup time. For details, see Property value substitution.

Basic Properties Advanced Properties

case-sensitive-validation
enabled
min-unique-characters

java-class

Basic properties

Use the --advanced option to access advanced properties.

case-sensitive-validation

Synopsis

Indicates whether this password validator should treat password characters in a case-sensitive manner.

Description

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

No

Read-only

No

enabled

Synopsis

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

No

Read-only

No

min-unique-characters

Synopsis

Specifies the minimum number of unique characters that a password will be allowed to contain.

Description

A value of zero indicates that no minimum value is enforced.

Default value

None

Allowed values

An integer.

Lower limit: 0.

Multi-valued

No

Required

Yes

Admin action required

None

Advanced

No

Read-only

No

Advanced properties

Use the --advanced option to access advanced properties.

java-class

Synopsis

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 extends or implements:

  • org.opends.server.api.PasswordValidator

Multi-valued

No

Required

Yes

Admin action required

The object must be disabled and re-enabled for changes to take effect.

Advanced

Yes

Read-only

No