Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component⤷
BC-SEC-LGN (Application Component) Authentication and SSO⤷
SECURITY_POLICY (Package) Security Policies
Basic Data
| Data Element | SECPOL_MIN_PWD_SPECIALS |
| Short Description | Minimum Number of Special Characters |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | SECPOL_MIN_PWD_SPECIALS | |
| Data Type | INT4 | 4-byte integer, integer number with sign |
| Length | 10 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 2 | |
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Further Characteristics
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Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 0 | |
| Medium | 0 | |
| Long | 40 | Minimum Number of Special Characters |
| Heading | 0 |
Documentation
Definition
This security policy attribute determines the minimum number of special characters that a password must contain.
All characters that are neither digits (0-9) nor ASCII letters (A-Z or a-z) are regarded as special characters.
These include national special characters and Unicode characters (if you are working in a Unicode system), as well as the ASCII characters !"@ $%&/()=?'`*+~#-_.,;:{[]}\<>|
The attribute applies both when assigning new passwords and when changing the password or resetting existing passwords.
Use
Possible values: 0 - 40
(If the profile parameter login/password_downwards_compatibility has been set to the value 5, the permissible value range is 0 - 8.)
This security policy attribute replaces profile parameter login/min_password_specials.
Dependencies
The total of the values of the following security policy attributes must not be higher than the maximum password length (40, or 8, if login/password_downwards_compatibility = 5):
- MIN_PASSWORD_DIGITS
- MIN_PASSWORD_LETTERS or the total of MIN_PASSWORD_LOWERCASE and MIN_PASSWORD_UPPERCASE
- MIN_PASSWORD_SPECIALS
Example
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20110908 |
| SAP Release Created in | 800 |
