Password complexity requirements

Password complexity requirements

Password must meet complexity requirements

This security setting determines whether passwords must meet complexity requirements.

Passwords must meet the following minimum requirements:

  1. Not contain the user's account name or parts of the user's full name that exceed two consecutive characters
  2. Be at least 6 characters in length
  3. New passwords may not be the same as the last four passwords.
Contain characters from three of the following four categories:
  1. English uppercase characters (A through Z)
  2. English lowercase characters (a through z)
  3. Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
  4. Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)

Complexity requirements are enforced when passwords are changed or created.




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