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authorAlex Groleau <agroleau@gitlab.com>2019-08-27 12:41:39 -0400
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# Custom password length limits
-If you want to enforce longer user passwords you can create an extra Devise
-initializer with the steps below.
+The user password length is set to a minimum of 8 characters by default.
+To change that for installations from source:
+
+1. Edit `devise_password_length.rb`:
+
+ ```sh
+ cd /home/git/gitlab
+ sudo -u git -H cp config/initializers/devise_password_length.rb.example config/initializers/devise_password_length.rb
+ sudo -u git -H editor config/initializers/devise_password_length.rb
+ ```
+
+1. Change the new password length limits:
+
+ ```ruby
+ config.password_length = 12..128
+ ```
-If you do not use the `devise_password_length.rb` initializer the password
-length is set to a minimum of 8 characters in `config/initializers/devise.rb`.
+ In this example, the minimum length is 12 characters, and the maximum length
+ is 128 characters.
-```bash
-cd /home/git/gitlab
-sudo -u git -H cp config/initializers/devise_password_length.rb.example config/initializers/devise_password_length.rb
-sudo -u git -H editor config/initializers/devise_password_length.rb # inspect and edit the new password length limits
-```
+1. [Restart GitLab](../administration/restart_gitlab.md#installations-from-source)
+ for the changes to take effect.
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