Setting up password strength

Strong passwords are recommended. Along with the other password features, password strength will frustrate any attempt to breach your system.

Prerequisites: Authentication scheme has been added to the AuthenticationService.

Password strength is associated with the selected authentication scheme, for example, Digest or Baisc, but not LDAP, for which password strength is managed by the LDAP server. You can create different strengths for different schemes and apply those schemes to different classes of user. For example, an administrator could have stricter password strength requirements.

Once the New Station wizard completes, you can adjust the scheme's password strength properties as needed. If changed for a scheme, any future password change for any station user (including the admin user) requires the minimum values specified in the Password Strength properties.

NOTE: Although you may reduce password strength by entering zeros for its property values, it is strongly recommended that you retain a level of password strength similar to the default level, if not greater. For example, you may wish to require at least one special and at least two upper case characters.

You configure password strength for each authentication scheme.

Perform the following steps:

Right-click the AuthenticationService in the Nav tree and click Views > Property Sheet.
The AuthenticationService Property Sheet window appears.
Expand the scheme and the Global Password Configuration > Password Strength container for the scheme.
Configure the minimum character requirements, Expiration Interval, Warning Period, and Password History Length (5 or 10 characters).
Do the same for any other scheme you plan to use and click Save.

Setting up password strength

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