How to include square brackets and special characters in password strengh validation.

Out of the box password validation script will not check for special characters. Also, in special special characters, we need to handle square brackets([] )differently since they have special meaning in regex.

Follow the below process to include special characters and square brackets([]) in password validation.

All versions.

• Password validation is done by the below script OOB:
  • https://<Instance_name>.service-now.com/nav_to.do?uri=pwd_cred_store_type.do?sys_id=e611433fbf020100710071a7bf073921
• Out of the box code the below regex to verify the password strength:
  • ^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z]).{8,}
• Note that all the special character can be placed in between [] except -(Hyphen) and the brackets themselves. Please provide escape sequence character \ before [, ] and -.
• Change it to below regex to include special character along with square brackets[]:
  •  ^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[\\\[\\\](){}?\\\\|,.<>;:!~*_@#$%^&+=\-]).{8,}$

The below regex tester can be used to test your regular expression.

https://www.regextester.com/1969

Use the below online javascript tester to check if your code works:

https://www.webtoolkitonline.com/javascript-tester.html

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