Self Service Password Reset generates a random password for the test user to give useful password suggestions. The random password will be generated by using words from the seed list, which are then randomly changed until they are sufficiently complex and comply with the user’s configured requirements.The word list and seed list are ZIP files containing one or more plain text files with one word per line.
You can add few more words that you want to allow as password to the seed list. To update the seed list, perform one of the following:
Navigate to the seedlist.zip file from one of the following paths according to your setup:
Appliance: /var/lib/docker/overlay2/c25d96dc05d02d3f3159889fa78d9e2e2fe44393b67a1ca257e14079d84d6d36/merged/root/.sspr-workpath/work-sspr-8443/war/WEB-INF/
Linux: /srv/tomcat/webapps/sspr/WEB-INF/
Windows: C:\Program Files\NetIQ Self Service Password Reset\apache-tomcat-9\webapps\sspr\WEB-INF
Extract the seedlist.zip folder and open the seedlist.txt file.
Add the words that you want to allow as password in the text file. Ensure that one word is specified per line.
Save the text file and compress the seedlist folder to the .zip format.
Continue with Uploading the seed list.
Create the seedlist.txt file.
Add the words that you want to allow as password in the text file. Ensure that one word is specified per line.
Save the text file within the folder seedlist.
Compress the seed list folder to the .zip format.
Continue with Uploading the seed list.
NOTE:It is recommended to save the seedlist.zip on an HTTP server, and configure URL of the file location in SSPR. This will restore the seed list as per your requirement even after the upgrade.
You can upload the updated or new seed list in one of the following ways:
You can save the seedlist.zip file in any of the web server and save the file location URL for further reference. Perform the following steps to set the seed list file URL in SSPR:
Click Configuration Editor > Settings > Word Lists.
Specify the URL of the text file in Seed List File URL.
Click Save changes in the toolbar.
To upload the seedlist.zip file through the user interface, perform the following steps:
Click Configuration Manager > Word Lists.
Click Upload Seed List.
Click Choose File and select the seedlist.zip from your local drive.
Click Upload.
To verify the seed list file is uploaded, check the Word Count that displays the number of words in the seed list available in the text file.
If you want to clear the uploaded seed list file and restore the old file, click Clear Seed List.
To verify the size of the seed list, check the Word Count that displays the number of words in the seed list available in the text file.