# Creating custom functions to verify passwords
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You can create a custom password verification function in the following ways:
+ To use standard verification logic, and to store your function in the `SYS` schema, use the `create_verify_function` procedure. 
+ To use custom verification logic, or to avoid storing your function in the `SYS` schema, use the `create_passthrough_verify_fcn` procedure. 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon RDS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query AmazonRDS` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).