Overview

Features

django-password-policies-iplweb is an application for the Django framework that

• provides a form field and forms that handle the validation of unicode passwords using different validators, see Validators.

• checks that passwords containing unicode characters conform to RFC 4013, including checks for

  • bidirectional characters and

  • invalid unicode characters.

• verifies if passwords contain

  • consecutive repetitions of the same characters,

  • common sequences,

  • dictionary words, using

    • Python bindings for cracklib,

    • a custom dictionary

    • and a list of words specific to each project.

• verifies that a new password is not too similar to an old one when a user changes his/her password.

• verifies that a new password is not equal to an email address.

• implements a password history for users making it possible to check if users try to use passwords again.

• uses Django’s cryptographic signing API to generate one-time secret URLs for password resets.