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Many times a password policy mandated compliance to minimum rules out of given rules such as a password must be compliant with at least M of N rules. Consider the following policy.
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Length of password should be in between 8 to 16 characters.
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A password should not contain any whitespace.
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A password should contains at least three of the following: upper, lower, digit or symbol.
Example
The below example shows the validation of a password against above policy using Passay library.
import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.IOException; import org.passay.CharacterCharacteristicsRule; import org.passay.CharacterRule; import org.passay.EnglishCharacterData; import org.passay.LengthRule; import org.passay.PasswordData; import org.passay.PasswordValidator; import org.passay.Rule; import org.passay.RuleResult; import org.passay.WhitespaceRule; public class PassayExample { public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException { //Rule 1: Password length should be in between //8 and 16 characters Rule rule1 = new LengthRule(8, 16); //Rule 2: No whitespace allowed Rule rule2 = new WhitespaceRule(); CharacterCharacteristicsRule rule3 = new CharacterCharacteristicsRule(); //M - Mandatory characters count rule3.setNumberOfCharacteristics(3); //Rule 3.a: One Upper-case character rule3.getRules().add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.UpperCase, 1)); //Rule 3.b: One Lower-case character rule3.getRules().add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.LowerCase, 1)); //Rule 3.c: One digit rule3.getRules().add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.Digit, 1)); //Rule 3.d: One special character rule3.getRules().add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.Special, 1)); PasswordValidator validator = new PasswordValidator(rule1, rule2, rule3); PasswordData password = new PasswordData("microsoft@123"); RuleResult result = validator.validate(password); if(result.isValid()){ System.out.println("Password validated."); } else { System.out.println("Invalid Password: " + validator.getMessages(result)); } } }
Output
Password validated.
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