clsPassword

clsPassword generates external-user passwords and validates proposed passwords against the library's length, complexity, and identity-matching checks.

Purpose

• Generate random passwords using configurable uppercase, lowercase, numeric, and symbol character sets.
• Validate submitted passwords against length, complexity, and no-name/no-user-ID rules.

Context

• Namespace: SAIF.Business.External.Users*
• Assembly/package: SAIF.BOF.Business.External.Users
• Likely uses SAIF.HashUtil for hashing operations, per the nuspec dependency.*

Public members

Member	Signature	Purpose
SPECIAL_CHARS	Public Const SPECIAL_CHARS As String = "#$@%?*"	Represents the special chars constant with value "#$@%?*".*
CHARS_TO_EXCLUDE	Public Const CHARS_TO_EXCLUDE As String = "1l0O"	Represents the chars to exclude constant with value "1l0O".*
SpecialCharsToInclude	Public Property SpecialCharsToInclude As Char() = SPECIAL_CHARS.ToCharArray	Indicates all the special characters that will be included by the generator.
IncludeUpper	Public Property IncludeUpper As Boolean = True	Determines if upper-case letters are included by the generator.
IncludeLower	Public Property IncludeLower As Boolean = False	Determines if lower-case letters are included by the generator.
IncludeNumbers	Public Property IncludeNumbers As Boolean = True	Determines if numbers 0-9 are included by the generator.
IncludeSymbol	Public Property IncludeSymbol As Boolean = True	Gets or sets the include symbol.*
CharsToExclude	Public Property CharsToExclude As Char() = CHARS_TO_EXCLUDE.ToCharArray	Indicates all characters that will be excluded by the generator.
New	Public Sub New(Optional includeUpper As Boolean = True, Optional includeLower As Boolean = True, Optional includeNumbers As Boolean = True, Optional includeSymbol As Boolean = False)	Initializes a new instance of clsPassword.*
Generate	Public Function Generate(Optional passwordLength As Integer = 8, Optional numSpecialChars As Integer = 0) As String	Generates .*
IsValid	Public Function IsValid(password As String, userId As String, firstName As String, lastName As String) As PasswordValdationResult	Returns whether valid.*

Behavioral notes

• Generate removes excluded characters from all candidate character lists before it assembles the password.
• IsValid returns a PasswordValdationResult populated with UI resource messages for each failed validation rule.

Constraints and usage notes

• Generate can append extra required characters, so the final password can exceed the requested base length.
• Validation messages come from UI_ExternalSecurityMaintenance resource strings.

Note: Statements marked with * were inferred from code structure, naming conventions, or contextual evidence where direct confirmation was not available in source artifacts.

Sources

• Business\SAIF.Business.External.Users\clsPassword.vb