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title: "Creating and Managing Password Policies"
slug: "password-policies"
updated: 2026-04-15T06:51:18Z
published: 2026-04-29T10:55:15Z
canonical: "docs.britive.com/password-policies"
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# Creating and Managing Password Policies

You can create password policies to use within a secret. These password policies are then applied to secret templates defined for different resources. There are two predefined password policies:

- **Strong Password Policy**: A password must consist of eight characters and should include numbers, uppercase, lowercase, and special characters.
- **Moderate Password Policy**: A password must consist of eight characters and should include uppercase and lowercase characters.

## Adding a password policy

1. Login to Britive.
2. Click on **System admin** -> **Secret Management** -> **Password Policies**. A list of all password policies is displayed. You can manage, clone**,** or delete a particular password policy.
3. Click the **Add Password Policy** button to create a new password policy.
4. Enter the following on the **Add Password Policy** page: a. Enter the **Password Policy Name**. b. Enter **Description** (Optional). c. Select the **Password Type**. You can choose from either an **alphanumeric password** or **a PIN (only Numbers)**. d. Select whether a password must include uppercase characters (A-Z). e. Select whether a password must include lowercase characters (a-z). f. Select whether a password must include numbers (0-9). g. Select whether a password must include any special characters. If you select **Yes**, enter the list of allowed special characters in the **Allowed Special Characters** field. h. Click **Save**.

## Managing password policies

You can manage each password policy by editing/cloning/deleting it.

1. Login to Britive.
2. Click on **System admin** -> **Secret Management** -> **Password Policies**.
3. Select the password policy and select any of the following actions: a. **Manage password policy**: You can edit, clone, or reset a password policy. b. **Clone password policy**: You can clone an existing password policy and refine the required fields as per your requirement. c. **Delete password policy**: You can delete a password policy.