Use the Password
Policies tab on
the Accounts and Passwords page for the Network IPS appliance to configure
password complexity, expiration dates, allowable characters, and other
options for user accounts.
About this task
Navigating
in the Network IPS Local Management Interface:
Notes: - Changes
to Password History option: If Password
History is enabled and later changed to No
Password History, an additional change is required to
avoid access problems. In , you must
change the local administrators password to a new password that has
not been logged in the password history file. If you do not complete
this additional step, the appliance might deny access.
- The
appliance does not apply password policies to the Root account
or to remote user accounts.
Procedure
- Click the Password Policies tab.
- Configure the following options in the Password
Complexity area:
Option |
Description |
Minimum Password Length |
Specifies the
minimum number of characters for passwords. |
Alpha Characters Required |
Specifies whether
passwords contain alphabetic characters. |
Numeric Characters Required |
Specifies
whether passwords contain numeric characters. |
High Low Case Required |
Specifies whether
passwords are case-sensitive or contain
both upper and lowercase characters. |
- Configure the following options in the Password
Properties area:
Option |
Description |
Password
Expiration Age |
Specifies a length of time a password
works to gain access
to the appliance. |
Password History |
Specifies whether the appliance retains a history of old passwords
and how many the appliance logs. Users cannot reuse passwords that
are retained in history. |
Lockout
Attempts |
Specifies the number of login attempts
a user can try before
the appliance denies the user access to the appliance for using an
incorrect password. |
Password Unlock
Time |
Specifies whether users can attempt to log
in again after
the appliance denies them access, which is the Manual option.
Also specifies for how long the appliance denies user access before
another login attempt. |
Idle Time
Logout |
Specifies whether the appliance denies a
user access for being
idle and specifies the length of acceptable idle time. |