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User Based Policies — Password Content Rules tab

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The Password Content Rules tab under the User Based Policies allows you to define the length and limit the content of a user's password.

Option

Definition

Display list of password rules

Enable this option to display the password rules to users.

Password length

This specifies the number of characters in a user password.

  • Minimum__ (3-40) — Defines the minimum number of characters for a user password.

  • Maximum__ (3-255) — Defines the maximum number of characters for a user password.

Enforce password content

This specifies the number of different characters like alpha, numeric, alphanumeric, and symbols that a user password can have.

  • Alpha — This specifies the number of letters that must be present in a user password.

  • Numeric — Specifies the number of numeric characters that must be present in a user password.

  • Alphanumeric — Specifies the number of alphanumeric characters that must be present in a user password.

  • Symbols — Specifies the number of symbols that must be present in a user password.

Password content restrictions

This specifies the password content restrictions for the user password.

  • No anagrams — A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase cannot be a password.

  • No palindromes — A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward can not be a password.

  • No sequences — "password2" after "password1" is unacceptable, as are passwords such as “aaaaaa” and “111111”.

  • Can't be user name — A user name cannot be set as a password.

  • Windows content rules — This demands to follow the standard Windows password content rule like a Windows password should contain at least three of the following:

    • Lower case letters

    • Upper case letters

    • Numbers

    • Symbols and special characters

  • No Simple Words — These are the set of words defined as simple words that cannot be used as passwords.

  • Simple Word Group — This contains the list of simple words.

Duplicate

Duplicates or copies the policy with a different name and this can be assigned to a different user.

Save

Saves the user based policy of Drive Encryption.

Cancel

Exits the current page.