Configure your password policy

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 3 minutes to read

    • Password policy criteria enables you to secure your password and adhere to the minimum password complexity requirements.

    Before you begin

    Role required: password_policy_admin

    About this task

    The Password Policy [com.glide.password_policy] plugin is enabled by default. It goes into effect when a user changes or resets the password. If you customized your instance, through the ValidatePasswordStronger installation exit or your Password Reset credential store [pwd_cred_store], see password policy properties.

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to All > Password Policy > Password Policies.
      Note:
      Default Strong preset in enabled as a default password acceptance criteria. In case, if you want to add a new criteria, you can perform the following steps.
    2. Click New.

      The Password Policy New record page, has the following sections that you must specify for setting your password:

      • Password Policy Criteria
      • Sequence Matching
      • Test Your Password
      Password policy new record creation
    3. Specify the Name for your password policy.
    4. In the Password Policy Criteria section, select the preset from the Password Strength Preset. The presets available are as follows:
      Table 1. Password Strength Preset and its description
      Password Strength Preset Description
      Default Selecting Default auto-populates the password characters required as follows:
      • One Minimum Uppercase Character
      • One Minimum Lowercase Character
      • One Minimum Numeric Character
      Medium Selecting Medium auto-populates the password characters required based on characters as follows:
      • One Minimum Uppercase Character
      • One Minimum Lowercase Character
      • One Minimum Numeric Character
      • One Minimum Special Character
      High Selecting High auto-populates the password characters as follows:
      • One Minimum Uppercase Character
      • Two Minimum Lowercase Character
      • One Minimum Numeric Character
      • Three Minimum Special Character
      Default Strong Selecting Default Strong auto-populates the password characters required based on characters as follows:
      • One Minimum Uppercase Character
      • One Minimum Lowercase Character
      • One Minimum Numeric Character
      • One Minimum Special Character
      Custom Selecting Custom auto-populates the password characters required based on characters as follows:
      • One Minimum Uppercase Character
      • One Minimum Lowercase Character
      • One Minimum Numeric Character
      • One Minimum Special Character

      You can also customize the Password Policy Script that is displayed.
      Advanced Selecting Advanced displays Password Rule Script and Password Strength Script. Based on your requirement you can customize these scripts.
      Note:
      Password policy is applied based on the selected preset.
    5. Specify the fields described in the table:
      Table 2. Password Policy form
      Field Description
      Minimum Password Length Minimum length of the password. This option is displayed for all the presets except Advanced.
      Note:
      Minimum Password Length is a required field and recommended setting it to a minimum of 8–10 characters.
      Maximum Password Length Maximum length of the password. This option is displayed for all the presets except Advanced.
      Note:
      Maximum Password Length is an optional field and recommended to set it to a maximum 100 characters.
      Minimum Uppercase Character(s) Minimum number of uppercase characters in the password, from 0 to 10.
      Minimum Lowercase Character(s) Minimum lowercase characters in the password, from 0 to 10.
      Minimum Numeric Character(s) Minimum numeric of characters in the password, from 0 to 10.
      Minimum Special Character(s) Minimum number of special characters in the password, from 0 to 10.
      Included Special Characters Allow a restricted set of special characters without any delimiter. For example, if you enter "$,!" users can only use "$" and "!" as special characters in the password. No other special characters can be used, and a password with other special characters is not allowed.
      Excluded Special Characters Allow a restricted set of special characters without any delimiter. For example, when '@$!' is entered, users should not be able to use '@', '$' and '!' as special characters in their passwords.
      Note:
      This option is available if the glide.password_policy.use_excluded_special_char property is enabled.
      Disallow User Data It is enabled to disallow the user data.
    6. In the Sequence Matching section, specify the Sequence Length Threshold and Repetition Length Threshold.
      Note:
      • Both the sequence length threshold and repetition length threshold can have a maximum of eight characters. These fields enable you to restrict weak combinations of passwords that have predictable and repeating sequences such as "123456", "qwerty", "!@#$%^", "aaaaa", and so on.
      • For Default Strong, the length for both sequence length threshold and repetition length threshold is selected as four characters.
    7. In the Test Your Password section, specify your password.
    8. Click Test Your Password.
    9. Once the password is valid, click Submit to submit the password.
      Note:
      Always test your password before submitting.