website/docs: Password Uniqueness Policy (#13686)

* First draft docs for policies/unique_password

* simplify documentation

* fix styling

* Add clarification about when this policy takes effect

* change wording in how it works

Co-authored-by: Dominic R <dominic@sdko.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Elizeche Landó <marce@melizeche.com>

* Take the user by the hand and tell them where to go

* Improve wording in Configuration options

* add suggestion from PR

Co-authored-by: Dominic R <dominic@sdko.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Elizeche Landó <marce@melizeche.com>

* Update website/docs/customize/policies/unique_password.md

Signed-off-by: Tana M Berry <tanamarieberry@yahoo.com>

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Tana M Berry <tanamarieberry@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Elizeche Landó <marce@melizeche.com>

* fix linting and wording

* Add instructions for binding

* Remove conf options section, add to sidebar

* Update website/docs/customize/policies/unique_password.md

Signed-off-by: Tana M Berry <tanamarieberry@yahoo.com>

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Signed-off-by: Marcelo Elizeche Landó <marce@melizeche.com>
Signed-off-by: Tana M Berry <tanamarieberry@yahoo.com>
Co-authored-by: Dominic R <dominic@sdko.org>
Co-authored-by: Tana M Berry <tanamarieberry@yahoo.com>
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@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ Starting with authentik 2022.11.0, the following checks can also be done with th
- Check the password hash against the database of [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/). Only the first 5 characters of the hashed password are transmitted, the rest is compared in authentik
- Check the password against the password complexity checker [zxcvbn](https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn), which detects weak password on various metrics.
### Password Uniqueness Policy
This policy prevents users from reusing their previous passwords when setting a new password. For detailed information, see [Password Uniqueness Policy](./unique_password.md).
### Reputation Policy
authentik keeps track of failed login attempts by source IP and attempted username. These values are saved as scores. Each failed login decreases the score for the client IP as well as the targeted username by 1 (one).