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title: Configuring a PingID Password Credential Validator instance
description: You can create and configure an instance of the PingID Password Credential Validator in the PingFederate administrative console.
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  before-you-begin: Before you begin
  steps: Steps
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# Configuring a PingID Password Credential Validator instance

You can create and configure an instance of the PingID Password Credential Validator in the PingFederate administrative console.

## Before you begin

Open the previously downloaded `pingid.properties` file in a text editor, copy its content, and then close the file.

## Steps

1. Go to **System > Data & Credential Stores > Password Credential Validators**, and then click **Create New Instance**.

2. On the **Type** tab, from the **Type** list, select **PingID PCV (with integrated RADIUS server)** and complete the **Instance Name** and **Instance ID** fields.

3. On the **Instance Configuration** tab, configure the required fields as follows.

   1. Click **Add a new row to 'RADIUS Clients'**, enter `127.0.0.1` as the RADIUS IP address and a value in the **Client Shared Secret** field. Click **Update**.

      |   |                                                                                                                                                                      |
      | - | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
      |   | `127.0.0.1` represents the local RADIUS client, the PingFederate administrative console, which calls the RADIUS server bundled in the PingID PCV for authentication. |

   The **Client Shared Secret** value is required for the next task.

   1. Click **Add a new row to 'Delegate PCV's'**, select the previously created LDAP Username Credential Validator instance, and then click **Update**.

   2. Paste the content from the `pingid.properties` file into the **PingID Properties File** field.

   3. Review the rest of the default settings. Modify as needed to meet your requirements, and click **Next**.

4. On the **Extended Contract** tab, click **Next** to skip to the **Summary** tab.

5. On the **Summary** tab, review, modify if needed, and save the configuration.

## Related links

* [RADIUS PCV Parameters Reference Guide](https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingid/pingid_integrations/pid_radius_pcv_parameters.html)