validate_password_length

Description

validate_password_length specifies the minimum length of a user password.

Privilege requirements

• Query variables

  sys tenants and all user tenants can execute the SHOW VARIABLES statement or query the SYS.TENANT_VIRTUAL_GLOBAL_VARIABLE view (Oracle mode) or the information_schema.GLOBAL_VARIABLES view (MySQL mode) to view the values of Global system variables.

• Modify variables

  • sys tenants can directly modify the values of Global system variables.

  • MySQL user tenants must have the SUPER or ALTER SYSTEM privilege to modify the values of Global system variables.

  • Oracle user tenants must have the ALTER SYSTEM privilege to modify the values of Global system variables.

Attributes

Examples

Set the minimum length of a user password to 8.

obclient> SET GLOBAL validate_password_length= 8;

References

For more information about password complexity, see Password complexity.