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Authentication

Password Policies

Password policies are rules set for everything having to do with passwords:

  • Age
  • Length and syntax
  • History
  • Expiration
  • Lockout rules
  • Change rules

Password policies can be applied to the whole instance, to organizations, or to individual users.

Clarity Vision Solutions needs different password policies for its two instances. For the public website, the defaults work except they want to add some syntax rules to encourage users to choose more secure passwords. For Glance, the internal intranet, they want more security: syntax rules, password history, expiration, and lockout.

Setting the Password Policy for the Public Website

  1. From http://localhost:8080, go to the Global Menu → Control Panel → Security → Password Policies.

  2. Click the Default Password Policy.

  3. Toggle Enable Syntax Checking and configure these options:

    • Minimum Alpha Numeric: 1
    • Minimum Length: 6
    • Minimum Lower Case: 1
    • Minimum Numbers: 1
    • Minimum Upper Case: 1

  4. Click Save.

Users must now use passwords that’s at least six characters long, has one letter, one lower case letter, one upper case letter, and one number.

Setting the Password Policy for Glance

  1. From http://glance.clarityvisionsolutions.com:8080, go to the Global Menu → Control Panel → Security → Password Policies.

  2. Click the Default Password Policy.

  3. Toggle Enable Syntax Checking and configure these options:

    • Minimum Length: 8
    • Minimum Lower Case: 1
    • Minimum Numbers: 1
    • Minimum Symbols: 1
    • Minimum Upper Case: 1

  4. Under Password History, toggle Enable History. Leave the default history count as 6.

  5. Under Password Expiration, toggle Enable Expiration and configure these options:

    • Maximum Age: 26 Weeks
    • Warning Time: 2 Weeks
    • Grace Limit: 5

  6. Under Lockout, toggle Enable Lockout and configure these options:

    • Maximum Failure: 5
    • Reset Failure Count: 10 Minutes
    • Lockout Duration: Until unlocked by an administrator

  7. Click Save.

Glance users must now use six passwords before they can repeat one. Their passwords also expire every six months, two weeks prior to which they receive a warning. After their passwords expire, they can still use it up to a grace limit of five times before they are locked out. If they use the wrong password, they get five chances to log in, after which their accounts are locked. If they don’t use all five chances, the failure count is reset after 10 minutes. Only administrators can unlock accounts.

Excellent! You have now configured password policies for both instances.

Next: Configuring Multi-Factor Authentication

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Configuring a Password Policy