Overview¶

Features¶

django-password-policies 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.