Chapter 5. User Management
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CC2000 Authentication
With regard to the CC2000’s internal authentication services, there are some
configuration settings you can make to the password policy function. All user
accounts must follow the requirements you set here. To configure the
CC2000’s password policy, do the following:
1. Select
Authentication Services
from the User Management menu bar.
2. Either in the Sidebar or in the Interactive Display Panel, click CC2000.
The
Properties
page appears
3. Make the configuration choices you desire. (Refer to the table, below, for
an explanation of the fields.)
4. When you have finished, click
Save
.
Minimum username
length
The username length can be the equivalent of from 1–16
English alphanumeric characters. The default is 6 charac-
ters.
Minimum password
length
The password length can be the equivalent of from 0–16
English alphanumeric characters. The default is 6 charac-
ters. A setting of 0 means that no password is required.
Since this leaves your installation in a highly insecure
state, we strongly recommend against a setting of 0.
Password expiration
For security purposes you can force users to renew their
passwords at specific time intervals. To do so, enable
Password expiration
, then specify the number of days
that the password will expire after. Once a password
expires, a new one must be set. Passwords start expiring
from the time an account is created, or a new password is
set.
Passwords must contain
both letters and numbers
For security purposes, enable this setting to force the
user to include both letters and numbers in the password.
Passwords must contain
both upper and lower
case letters
For security purposes, enable this setting to force the
user to include both upper and lower case letters in the
password.
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