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Security question response validation

The security question response plugin provides additional validation logic of pre-defined and user-defined questions and answers. The plugin is executed when users are updating their security question profile.

To configure this type of plugin:

  1. Click Manage the system > Policies > Question sets .

  2. Select or add a pre-defined or user-defined question set.

  3. Set Plugin for validating answers to the name of your plugin.

  4. Click Update.

There is no shipped plugin in use with this plugin point.

Write a custom plugin for validating answers

Requirements

See Writing plugins for general requirements.

Input

The input KVGroup to the plugin is in the format:

"qarule" "" = {
   "qsid" = "<questionsetid>"
   "sessionid" = "<sessionid>"
   "<questionid_assigned_by_instance>" "" = {
     "answer" = "<answer_to_test>"
     "question" = "<human-readable question>"
   }
 }

Where <questionsetid> is the question set ID, <answer_to_test> is the answer provided by the user, and <human-readable question> is the question being answered.

Output

The output KVGroup for a successful validation is of the format:

"" "" = {
       "returnval" = "0"
}
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