Deprecate "max-consecutive" in favor of two new statements: "max-re… - #1255
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The "consecutive" within "max-consecutive" is ambiguous. It's unclear if anyone means "maximum number of back-to-back
repeated characters" (e.g. "aaa" or "777") or "maximum number of back-to-back characters in a sequence" (e.g. "abc" or
"789"). We're going to fix this by adding "max-repeating" and "max-sequential" and effectively deprecating
"max-consecutive" from the password rules language, but supporting it going forward as an alias to *both*
"max-repeating" and "max-sequential".
max-repeating: Defines the maximum number of identical characters allowed to be back-to-back in a password.
* e.g. "aaa" is valid in `max-repeating: 3`, but not `max-repeating: 2`.
max-sequential: Defines the maximum number of characters adjacent to each other, directional within the ascii lookup
table within ranges "a-z", "A-Z", and "0-9", allowed to be back-to-back in a password.
* e.g. "abc" is valid in `max-sequential: 3`, but not `max-sequential: 2`.
* e.g. "123" is valid in `max-sequential: 3`, but not `max-sequential: 2`.
* e.g. "321" is valid in `max-sequential: 3`, but not `max-sequential: 2`.
* e.g. "cba" is valid in `max-sequential: 3`, but not `max-sequential: 2`.
Apple documentation needs to be updated after this change. I will work on fixing that.
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Deprecate "max-consecutive" in favor of two new statements: "max-repeating" and "max-sequential"
The "consecutive" within "max-consecutive" is ambiguous. It's unclear if anyone means "maximum number of back-to-back
repeated characters" (e.g. "aaa" or "777") or "maximum number of back-to-back characters in a sequence" (e.g. "abc" or
"789"). We're going to fix this by adding "max-repeating" and "max-sequential" and effectively deprecating
"max-consecutive" from the password rules language, but supporting it going forward as an alias to both
"max-repeating" and "max-sequential".
max-repeating: Defines the maximum number of identical characters allowed to be back-to-back in a password.
max-repeating: 3, but notmax-repeating: 2.max-sequential: Defines the maximum number of characters adjacent to each other, directional within the ascii lookup
table within ranges "a-z", "A-Z", and "0-9", allowed to be back-to-back in a password.
max-sequential: 3, but notmax-sequential: 2.max-sequential: 3, but notmax-sequential: 2.max-sequential: 3, but notmax-sequential: 2.max-sequential: 3, but notmax-sequential: 2.Apple documentation needs to be updated after this change. I will work on fixing that.
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