28.3. Adding a New Password Policy

When adding a new password policy, you must specify:

a user group to which the policy will apply (see Section 28.2.2, “Global and Group-specific Password Policies”)
a priority (see Section 28.2.3, “Password Policy Priorities”)

To add a new password policy using:

the web UI, see the section called “Web UI: Adding a New Password Policy”
the command line, see the section called “Command Line: Adding a New Password Policy”

Web UI: Adding a New Password Policy

Select Policy Password Policies.
Click Add.
Define the user group and priority.
Click Add to confirm.

To configure the attributes of the new password policy, see Section 28.4, “Modifying Password Policy Attributes”.

Command Line: Adding a New Password Policy

Use the ipa pwpolicy-add command. Specify the user group and priority:
```
$ ipa pwpolicy-add
Group: group_name
Priority: priority_level
```
Optional. Use the ipa pwpolicy-find command to verify that the policy has been successfully added:
```
$ ipa pwpolicy-find
```

To configure the attributes of the new password policy, see Section 28.4, “Modifying Password Policy Attributes”.

Learn

Try, buy, & sell

Communities

About Red Hat Documentation

We help Red Hat users innovate and achieve their goals with our products and services with content they can trust.

Making open source more inclusive

Red Hat is committed to replacing problematic language in our code, documentation, and web properties. For more details, see the Red Hat Blog.

About Red Hat

We deliver hardened solutions that make it easier for enterprises to work across platforms and environments, from the core datacenter to the network edge.

© 2024 Red Hat, Inc.