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Limit Repetition of Substrings

You may want to prevent users from choosing passwords that consists of repetitions of the same strings, such as asdasdasd.

To prevent repetition of a substring within a password

  1. Set the minimum length of the substring that you want to check for, using the following command:
    set password-min-length-repeated-substring = length-substring | 0;
    
  2. Set the number of times a substring can be repeated, using the following command:
    set password-max-substring-repetition = number-repetitions;
    

Example: Limiting Substring Repetition

You have set up the following password policy:

set password-policy = true;
set password-max-substring-repetition = 1;
set password-min-length-repeated-substring = 3;

Users in this directory cannot create the following passwords:

However, they can create the following passwords:

More information:

set password-max-suspension Command

set password-min-length-repeated-substring Command


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