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Password Policy Methods

The following methods act on PolicyMgtPwdPolicy objects:

• AllowNestedGroups Method—Allows the password policy to be configured for nested groups
• ApplyLowerPriorityPolicies Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for evaluating lower-priority password policies after the current policy is evaluated
• AuthLoginTrackFailure Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for allowing a user to log in if login tracking data fails to be written to the user directory
• BadLoginDisablementPeriod Method—Sets or retrieves the number of minutes after which a user is disabled after too many failed login attempts
• Description Method—Sets or retrieves the description of the password policy
• DictionaryMatch Method—Sets the minimum number of letters required to qualify a password for dictionary checking
• DictionaryPath Method—Sets or retrieves the location of a dictionary file that lists words that cannot be used in a password
• DisableAfterInactivityExpiration Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for disabling a user’s account if it has been inactive for a specified period
• DisableAfterPwdExpiration Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for disabling a user’s account after the user’s password expires
• EntireDir Method—Determines whether the password policy applies to the entire directory or just a part of it
• ExpirationDelay Method—Specifies the number of days a password can be used until it must be changed
• IsEnabled Method—Enables or disables a password policy
• MaxLoginFailures Method—Sets the maximum number of failed login attempts a user can make before the user account is disabled
• MaxLoginInactive Method—Sets the number of days of inactivity allowed before a user's password expires
• Name Method—Sets or retrieves the password policy name
• PwdAddRegExpMatch Method—Adds a regular expression that new passwords must match
• PwdAddRegExpNoMatch Method—Adds a regular expression that new passwords must not match
• PwdAllowDigits Method—Sets or retrieves the flag specifying whether passwords are allowed to have numeric characters
• PwdAllowLowercase Method—Sets or retrieves the flag specifying whether passwords are allowed to have lower case letters
• PwdAllowNonAlphaNum Method—Sets or retrieves the flag specifying whether passwords are allowed to have non-alphanumeric characters
• PwdAllowNonPrintable Method—Sets or retrieves the flag specifying whether passwords are allowed to have non-printable characters
• PwdAllowPunctuation Method—Sets or retrieves the flag specifying whether passwords are allowed to have punctuation mark characters
• PwdAllowUppercase Method—Sets or retrieves the flag specifying whether passwords are allowed to have uppercase letters
• PwdExpiryWarning Method—Sets the number of days in advance to notify the user that the password will expire
• PwdForceLowerCase Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for forcing a new password to lower case
• PwdForceUpperCase Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for forcing a new password to uppercase
• PwdGetAllRegExpMatch Method—Retrieves the tags of all the regular expressions that new passwords must match
• PwdGetAllRegExpNoMatch Method—Retrieves the tags of all the regular expressions that new passwords must not match
• PwdGetRegExp Method—Retrieves the regular expression for the specified tag
• PwdIgnoreSequence Method—Indicates whether to ignore sequence (that is, character position) when the different-from-previous-characters percentage is calculated
• PwdMaxLength Method—Sets or retrieves the maximum length for user passwords
• PwdMaxRepeatingChar Method—Sets or retrieves the maximum number of identical characters that can appear consecutively in a password
• PwdMinAlpha Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of alphabetic characters (A-Z, a‑z) that a password must contain
• PwdMinAlphaNum Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) that a password must contain
• PwdMinLength Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) that a password must contain
• PwdMinLowercase Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of lower case letters that a password must contain
• PwdMinNonAlpha Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of non-alphanumeric characters that a password must contain
• PwdMinNonPrintable Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of non-printable characters that a password must contain
• PwdMinNumbers Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of numeric characters (0-9) that a password must contain
• PwdMinProfileMatch Method—Specifies the minimum character sequence to check against the user's personal information
• PwdMinPunctuation Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of punctuation marks that a password must contain
• PwdMinUppercase Method—Sets or retrieves the minimum number of uppercase letters that a password must contain
• PwdPercentDiff Method—Specifies the percentage of characters that a new password must contain that differ from characters in the previous password
• PwdPolicyPriority Method—Sets or retrieves the password’s priority setting (1-1000)
• PwdRedirectionURL Method—Sets or retrieves the URL where the user is re-directed when an invalid password is provided
• PwdRemoveRegExp Method—Removes the regular expression associated with the specified tag
• PwdReuseCount Method—Specifies the number of new passwords that must be used before an old password can be reused
• PwdReuseDelay Method—Specifies the number of days a user must wait before reusing a password
• ReEnableAfterIncorrectPwd Method—Specifies whether to re-enable a user account after the entry of an incorrect password
• Save Method—Saves modifications to a password policy
• StripEmbeddedWhitespace Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for stripping new passwords of embedded white space
• StripLeadingWhitespace Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for stripping new passwords of leading white space
• StripTrailingWhitespace Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for stripping new passwords of trailing white space
• TrackLoginDetails Method—Sets or retrieves the flag for tracking authentication attempts and successful logins
• UserDirClass Method—Sets or retrieves the directory class if the password policy applies to a part of the directory
• UserDirectory Method—Sets or retrieves the user directory for the password policy
• UserDirPath Method—Sets or retrieves the directory path if the password policy applies to a part of the directory