---
title: "Account: Password Requirements"
slug: "account-password-requirements"
updated: 2024-05-16T20:24:32Z
published: 2024-05-16T20:24:32Z
canonical: "support.smarteru.com/account-password-requirements"
---

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# Account: Password Requirements

You can specify the length and complexity conditions for user passwords. The account's password requirements will be enforced when:

- Adding a new user from the [User Profile workscreen](/v1/docs/adding-a-user-manually), [user import](/v1/docs/importing-users), or [API](/v1/docs/api-createuser).
- Editing a user from the [User Profile workscreen](/v1/docs/editing-a-user-manually), [user import](/v1/docs/importing-users), or [API](/v1/docs/api-updateuser).
- [Resetting a user's password](/v1/docs/resetting-a-users-password).
- [Recovering a password](/v1/docs/recovering-your-password).
- [Editing your profile](https://support.smarteru.com/docs/editing-your-profile).

Existing users will only need to change their password to comply with the account's password requirements when they edit their profile or recover their password. 

When you [edit your account's settings](/v1/docs/editing-your-account-settings), the Password Requirements accordion of the Account Profile workscreen includes the following settings.

![Account Profile - Password Requirements 20220921](https://cdn.document360.io/7efaadab-fef6-4186-806a-2ca14c9ce9ea/Images/Documentation/Account%20Profile%20-%20Password%20Requirements%2020220921.png)

## Settings

Be sure to click **Save** after changing these settings. 

### Enable Password Requirements

Select this checkbox to specify the length and complexity requirements for user passwords.

### Minimum Length

Enter the minimum password length. The minimum allowed length is 8.

### Maximum Length

Enter the maximum password length. The maximum allowed length is 50.

### Complexity Required

If checked, passwords must contain all of the following:

- At least one uppercase character
- At least one lowercase character
- At least one number
- At least one special character

## Related

- [API: createUser](/api-createuser.md)
- [API: updateUser](/api-updateuser.md)
- [Editing Your Account Settings](/editing-your-account-settings.md)
- [Editing Your User Profile](/editing-your-profile.md)
- [Importing Users](/importing-users.md)
- [Resetting Your Password](/recovering-your-password.md)
- [Resetting a User's Password](/resetting-a-users-password.md)