Netscape NETSCAPE DIRECTORY SERVER 6.02, Administrator'S Manual

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Managing the Password Policy
Chapter 7 User Account Management 261
3.
You can specify that users must change their password the first time they log
on by selecting the “User must change password after reset” checkbox.
If you select this checkbox, only the Directory Manager is authorized to reset
the users’s password (using the field described in step 9). A regular
administrative user cannot force the user to update their password.
4.
To specify that users can change their own passwords, select the “User may
change password” checkbox.
5.
You can specify that users cannot change their password for a specific time by
entering the number of days in the “Allow changes in X day(s)” text box.
6.
To configure the server to maintain a history list of passwords used by each
user, select the “Keep password history” checkbox. Specify the number of
passwords you want the server to keep for each user in the “Remember X
passwords” text box.
7.
If you do not want user passwords to expire, select the “Password never
expires” radio button.
8.
If you want users to have to change their passwords periodically, select the
“Password expires after X days” radio button and then enter the number of
days that a user password is valid.
9.
If you have turned selected the “Password expire after X days” radio button,
you need to specify how long before the password expires to send a warning to
the user.In the “Send Warning X Days Before Password Expires” text enter the
number of days before password expiration to send a warning.
10.
If you want the server to check the syntax of a user password to make sure it
meets the minimum requirements set by the password policy, select the
“Check Password Syntax” checkbox. Then, specify the minimum acceptable
password length in the “Password Minimum Length” text box.
11.
Specify what encryption method you want the server to use when storing
passwords from the “Password Encryption” pull-down menu.
For detailed information about the encryption methods, refer to the
passwordStorageScheme
attribute in Table 7-1 on page 262.
The “Password Encryption” menu might contain other encryption methods, as
the directory dynamically creates the menu depending upon the existing
encryption methods it finds in your directory.
12.
When you have finished making changes to the password policy, click Save.