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BLOCK_OLD_PASSWORDS

When a non-zero number (N), password change attempts that reuse any of the N previous passwords for a user will fail with error PASSWORD_BLOCKLIST_ERR(1256).

Default: 0 (No check)

Note: This keyword only blocks passwords that have been used since BLOCK_OLD_PASSWORDS was turned on. It cannot retrieve passwords from before it was active.

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