Password Validators

HIdP comes with a set of custom password validators to ensure that passwords meet certain complexity requirements. These validators enforce rules such as requiring digits, uppercase and lowercase characters, and special symbols; enhancing security by enforcing password diversity.

Each validator is independent, enable any combination (or none) to suite your password policy requirements.

Available validators

These password validators are available:

DigitValidator: Requires a password with at least one digit (0-9).
UppercaseValidator: Requires a password with at least one uppercase letter (A-Z).
LowercaseValidator: Requires a password with at least one lowercase letter (a-z).
SymbolValidator: Requires a password with at least one special character from the set !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~.

Configuring Password Validators

To use these custom password validators, add them to the AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS setting in your Django project (among the other validators you may have configured):

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        "NAME": "hidp.accounts.password_validation.DigitValidator",
    },
    {
        "NAME": "hidp.accounts.password_validation.UppercaseValidator",
    },
    {
        "NAME": "hidp.accounts.password_validation.LowercaseValidator",
    },
    {
        "NAME": "hidp.accounts.password_validation.SymbolValidator",
    }
]

Adding these validators ensures that any passwords set or updated will have to meet these required criteria.

For more information on configuring password validation in Django, refer to Django’s documentation.