Bug ID 1256893: Add more password policy configuration parameters

Last Modified: Jun 04, 2025

Affected Product(s):
F5OS F5OS(all modules)

Fixed In:
F5OS-A 1.7.0

Opened: Mar 01, 2023

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

F5OS lacked additional fine-grained password policies required by some security policies.

Impact

Users could not prohibit other users from setting certain patterns of repeating characters in passwords.

Conditions

A security policy might require a user to restrict repeating sequences of special characters such as !@#$%.

Workaround

N/A

Fix Information

Users can now configure max-letter-repeat, max-sequence-repeat and max-class-repeat for F5OS password policies.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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