Administer user password policies

We can manage user access by setting password attributes. We can specify policies that apply either only to a single user or for all users.

When a user password policy attribute is set to a value and enforced, the value always takes precedence over the value set for the general policy. This is true regardless of which value is more restrictive. If a password policy attribute for a user is not enforced, then the value is set for the general policy, if that value is set and enforced, is in effect for the user.

Table 1 describes the administration API methods that used to modify or access password policies.

Method	Description
PDPolicy constructor	Instantiates a policy object for a user, or for all users in the case of the global policy.
PDPolicy object.getMaxPwdAge	Returns the password expiration date.
PDPolicy object.getMaxPwdRepChars	Returns the maximum number of repeated characters allowed in the password.
PDPolicy object.getMinPwdAlphas	Returns the minimum number of alphabetic characters allowed in the password.
PDPolicy object.getMinPwdLen	Returns the minimum password length.
PDPolicy object.getMinPwdNonAlphas	Returns the minimum number of nonalphabetic characters allowed in a password.
PDPolicy object.maxPwdAgeEnforced	Returns an indicator Whether the maximum password age policy is enforced.
PDPolicy object.maxPwdRepCharsEnforced	Returns an indicator Whether the password maximum repeated characters policy is enforced.
PDPolicy object.minPwdAlphasEnforced	Returns an indicator Whether the password minimum alphabetic characters required policy is enforced.
PDPolicy object.minPwdLenEnforced	Returns an indicator Whether the minimum password length policy is enforced.
PDPolicy object.minPwdNonAlphasEnforced	Returns an indicator Whether the password minimum non-alphabetic characters policy is enforced.
PDPolicy object.pwdSpacesAllowed	Returns an indicator Whether spaces are allowed in a password.
PDPolicy.setMaxPwdAge PDPolicy object.setMaxPwdAge	Sets the password expiration date.
PDPolicy.setMaxPwdRepChars PDPolicy object.setMaxPwdRepChars	Set the maximum number of repeated characters allowed in a password.
PDPolicy.setMinPwdAlphas PDPolicy object.setMinPwdAlphas	Set the minimum number of alphabetic characters allowed in a password.
PDPolicy.setMinPwdLen PDPolicy object.setMinPwdLen	Set the minimum password length.
PDPolicy.setMinPwdNonAlphas PDPolicy object.setMinPwdNonAlphas	Set the minimum number of non-alphabetic characters allowed in a password.
PDPolicy.setPwdSpacesAllowed PDPolicy object.setPwdSpacesAllowed	Sets policy for Whether spaces are allowed in a password.

For detailed reference information about these methods, see the Javadoc HTML documentation.

Parent topic: Administer users and groups