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Password Policy |
  
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Password Policy |
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To have access to the Administration controls, a user must have the ‘Manage system settings ’ permission enabled in her role. How to enable permissions, see Roles and Permissions. |
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This feature is only available in the Enterprise version of the product |
Easy Projects .NET allows you as administrator to set certain rules, a policy, regarding how passwords are used.
Password policy is a tab on Administration options screen
The password policy settings are summarized in the table.
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Enable password strength policy |
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Checkbox, to enable/disable password policy |
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Minimum number of characters |
sets the lowest number of characters that can be used to create a password. |
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Minimum number of numeric characters |
sets the minimum number of numeric characters to be used while creating a password |
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Minimum number of special characters |
sets the minimum number of special characters (&,^,%, etc.) to be used while creating a password |
Don't allow users to set a password from a banned password list |
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If enabled, you are supposed to upload a text file containing a list of banned passwords |
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File selection tool |
Use it to upload a text file with a list of banned passwords. |
Enable password expiration |
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Enable/disable password expiration |
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Number of days |
Sets the number of days until the password expires after it has been created |
Lock out user after # invalid password attempts |
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Sets the number of attempts to enter the wrong password the user can make before he is locked out |
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Unlock user on successful password recovery |
Enables the option of unlocking the user after he has followed password recovery procedure |
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Unlock user automatically in # minutes |
Enables the option of unlocking the user in a certain number of minutes |
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To cause any of the above settings to take effect, use the respective 'Apply' button. |
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