Fixed #27467 -- Made UserAttributeSimilarityValidator max_similarity=0/1 work as documented.

Thanks goblinJoel for the report and feedback.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt
index da2bc57df8..7015e65404 100644
--- a/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/auth/passwords.txt
@@ -545,11 +545,10 @@ Django includes four validators:
     is used: ``'username', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'email'``.
     Attributes that don't exist are ignored.
 
-    The maximum similarity the password can have, before it is rejected, can
-    be set with the ``max_similarity`` parameter, on a scale of 0 to 1.
-    A setting of 0 will cause all passwords to be rejected, whereas a setting
-    of 1 will cause it to only reject passwords that are identical to an
-    attribute's value.
+    The minimum similarity of a rejected password can be set on a scale of 0 to
+    1 with the ``max_similarity`` parameter. A setting of 0 rejects all
+    passwords, whereas a setting of 1 rejects only passwords that are identical
+    to an attribute's value.
 
 .. class:: CommonPasswordValidator(password_list_path=DEFAULT_PASSWORD_LIST_PATH)