Relax minimum password length limits

Information

Relax minimum password length legacy limits

This setting controls whether the minimum password length setting can be increased beyond the legacy limit of 14.

If this setting is not defined, minimum password length may be configured to a maximum of 14.

If this setting is defined and disabled, minimum password length may be configured to a maximum of 14.

If this setting is defined and enabled, minimum password length may be configured higher than 14.

For more information see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2097191.

Solution

Policy Path: Password Policy
Policy Setting Name: Relax minimum password length limits

See Also

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-baselines/windows-11-version-22h2-security-baseline/ba-p/3632520

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1)(a)

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: 7f7c93ea4cdf470dde575aa39554be30f6b33c3157d0275f7e15210b71353cd1