So i am trying to make a variable match the password requirements for making a virtual machine in azure CLI
to do this it must have 3 of the following !uppercase, 1 lowercase 1 special character or a number
This is the main code i am trying to change
$AdminPassword = Read-Host -Prompt "Please insert a Admin Password (Password must have 3 of the following: 1 lower case character, 1 upper case character, 1 number and 1 special character)"
This is the code i changed but isn't working correctly
do
{
$AdminPassword = Read-Host -Prompt "Please insert a Admin Password (Password must have the 3 of the following: 1 lower case character, 1 upper case character, 1 number and 1 special character)"
}
until($AdminPassword -Like "[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][a-z][a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][!@$#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};'':"\\|,.<>\/? ][!@$#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};'':"\\|,.<>\/? ][!@$#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};'':"\\|,.<>\/? ]")
Write Match
with the write match line i know when it succeeds
the real trouble i have here is that i want all 4 of the requirements 3 times so 3 uppercase's 3 lowercase's etc
and i also want to have the special characters
but the # comments all the code that follows out
thanks in advance for reading this and posting your anwser!!!
I'm not sure if this can be done with just one regex..
As an alternative, below a small helper function to do the tests.
function Test-AdminPassword {
[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
[Parameter(Position = 0, Mandatory=$true)]
[string]$Password,
[Parameter(Position = 1)]
[int]$Requirements = 5
)
$result = 0
# test length between 12 and 24
if ($Password.Length -in 12..24) {
$result++
}
# test uppercase
if (($Password -creplace '[^A-Z]', '').Length -ge 3) {
$result++
}
# test lowercase
if (($Password -creplace '[^a-z]', '').Length -ge 3) {
$result++
}
# test digits
if (($Password -replace '[^0-9]', '').Length -ge 3) {
$result++
}
# test special characters
if (($Password -creplace '[^!@$#%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};'':"\\|,.<>\/? ]', '').Length -ge 3) {
$result++
}
# return $true if the password complies with at least $requirements
return ($result -ge $Requirements)
}
do {
$AdminPassword = Read-Host -Prompt "Please insert an Admin Password (must have the 3 lower case characters, 3 upper case characters, 3 digits and 3 special characters)"
} until (Test-AdminPassword $AdminPassword)
For the special characters,the regular expression should be the one in the code below.
You need to use single quote for your regular expression:
do
{
$s=Read-Host -Prompt "please enter a password"
}
until($s -like '[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][a-z][a-z][a-z][0-9][0-9][0-9][!@$#$%^&*()_+\-\=`[`]{};'':`"\\|,.<>\/? ][!@$#$%^&*()_+\-\=`[`]{};'':`"\\|,.<>\/? ][!@$#$%^&*()_+\-\=`[`]{};'':`"\\|,.<>\/? ]')
write-host "complete entering password"
Test result as below: