
Managing Users and Security
Managing Security Policies
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To apply your changes, click
Apply
.
Policy Settings
The following table lists the Policy settings for the encoder:
Policy Setting
Default
Description/Values
Password Policies
Minimum password
length
6 characters
Type in the minimum password length
(from 6-40 characters).
NOTE:
Passwords can be up to 80
characters.
Password quality
Basic
Select the required password quality; this
works in conjunction with
• Basic: Makes the minimum password
length the only requirement for creating
a new password.
• Strong: Adds stricter requirements for
password creation (checks for minimum
length, minimum number of required
upper case characters, digits, and
symbols, etc.). Also prevents the use of
dictionary words in passwords, and
enforces a minimum number of 4
characters that must be different from
the previous password.
Password requires
at least
n/a if Basic
0 characters if
Strong
(
must be Strong) Specify
the minimum required number of:
• Uppercase Letters
• Digits
• Symbols
The range is from 0 to 40 for all 3.
Password
expiration
Disabled
To enable Password expiration, check the
checkbox.
Change password
after
n/a if Disabled
90 days if
Enabled
(
Type in the number of days after which
users must change their passwords (from
1-180 days).