Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How to do it...

Follow these steps to set up stronger password validation for your project:

1. Let's customize the settings for the validators that are included with Django by adding some options:

# myproject/settings/_base.pyAUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [    {        "NAME": "django.contrib.auth.password_validation."        "UserAttributeSimilarityValidator",        "OPTIONS": {"max_similarity": 0.5},    },    {        "NAME": "django.contrib.auth.password_validation."         "MinimumLengthValidator",        "OPTIONS": {"min_length": 12},    },    {"NAME": "django.contrib.auth.password_validation."     "CommonPasswordValidator"},    {"NAME": "django.contrib.auth.password_validation."     "NumericPasswordValidator"},]

2. Add the MaximumLengthValidator class to the password_validation.py file in the new auth_extra ...