Bridge GUI Guide: Administrative Access
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2.2.1.8
Password Requirements
NOTE:
Passwords
do
not
need to be
unique.
The Bridge will not accept new passwords that do not meet
specified requirements. If you specify new requirements that
existing passwords do not meet, nonconforming passwords are
treated according to the
Expire Nonconforming Passwords
setting (described in Section 2.2.1.7).
Configured complexity requirements apply equally to
administrative passwords and to those of locally authenticated
network users (Section 4.3.3.1).
You can apply up to nine rules for administrative and local user
passwords:
Pass. Minimum Length
- Passwords must be at least the
specified number of characters long. You can specify
values from
8
to
32
characters. The default is
15
.
Pass. Minimum Capitals
- Passwords must contain at least
the specified number of uppercase letters. You can specify
values from
0
(zero) to
5
; a
0
value (the default) allows
passwords containing no uppercase letters.
Pass. Minimum Lowercase
- Passwords must contain at
least the specified number of lowercase letters. You can
specify values from
0
(zero) to
5
; a
0
value (the default)
allows passwords containing no lowercase letters.
Pass. Minimum Numbers
- Passwords must contain at least
the specified number of numerals. You can specify values
from
0
(zero) to
5
; a
0
value (the default) allows passwords
containing no numerals.
Pass. Minimum Punctuation
- Passwords must contain at
least the specified number of symbols from the set:
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# $ % ^ & *( ) _ - + = { } [ ] | \ : ; < > , . ?
/
(excludes double and single quotation marks). You can
specify values from
0
(zero) to
5
; a
0
value (the default)
allows passwords containing no symbols.
NOTE:
Pass. Mi
ni-
mum Delta
and
Pass. History Depth
are
tracked separately for
each administrative ac-
count.
Pass. Minimum Delta
- Passwords must contain at least the
specified number of changed characters, as compared to
the previous password. You can specify values from
0
(zero) to
5
. A
0
value disables the check: if
Pass. History
Depth
(below) is also
Disabled
(the default), the same
password can be used consecutively, without any change
(provided it still conforms to the rest of the rules in effect).
Pass. Minimum Delta
is disabled by default.
Pass. Consecutive Characters
- Passwords can/cannot
contain consecutive repeated characters or consecutive
characters in ascending or descending numeric or
alphabetic order. When
Pass. Consecutive Characters
is
Disabled
, passwords cannot include the character pairs
98
or
ab
, for examples. When it is
Enabled
(the default),
passwords can contain consecutive characters in numeric
or alphabetic order.
