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# Exclude passwords on your instance

# Exclude passwords through password policies on your instance {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Zurich
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* Updated July 31, 2025
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Add passwords to the Excluded Password table to prohibit specific passwords from
being used by users on your instance.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## About this task

You can ban as many passwords as necessary. Some of the examples are as follows:

* Predictable and repeating sequences, such as "123456", "qwerty", "!@#$%\^", "aaaaa", and so on.
* Employee name or user names.
* Relevant brand or product names.
* Locations, such as a company headquarters, city, country, and so on.
* Company-specific internal terms or abbreviations.
* Emojis.
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## Procedure

1. Navigate to AllPassword PolicyExcluded Passwords.
2. To add a password to your exclude list, click New and enter the password.
3. Navigate to Password PolicyExclusion List Management to govern your users' password and prevent users from using bad password for the instance.  
   The Exclusion List Management has about 5000 commonly
   used passwords.

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