Basic password policy Expression no longer working after Siteminder upgrade.

Products

• SITEMINDER

Issue/Introduction

Basic password policy setup with regular expression for password composition example ^[a-9!@#$&?:;.(){}\[_\]]*$  No longer working after upgrading to 12.8 SP8 CR01 release.

Environment

Release: 12.8 SP8 CR01 
Component: SMPLC : SITEMINDER - POLICY SERVER

Resolution

When using basic password Policy expression for password composition, the administrator must set the registry key "UsePCREPasswordChecks" as indicated in the guide below for the expression to be evaluated upon user change password flow.

With the upgrade, the key must have been removed from the registry hence the issue.

If Expression is being used in basic password policy, please ensure that the key is set as indicated in the guide after the upgrade.

- Reference guide:

How to Configure Password Policies