the old validate password method and configuration values in favor of AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS, a list of validators to use to check a password. These include some that come straight from Django and some that were written according to Django's specifications. This work also included maintaining the current messaging as instruction text and passing along restrictions for the password field.
common ------ This directory contains common code shared between LMS and CMS, such as Mako templates, CSS, and Coffescript.