Dell PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC) 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide

Changing login options

You can modify settings for password composition, time to change passwords, limiting login tries, and so forth.

1. Click the Settings button (the gear icon) in the DDMC banner, then select Access > Local Users > Manage Password Policies.
2. In the Manage Password Policies dialog box, type the password policy information.

   Table 1. Password policies

   Item	Description
   Minimum Days Between Change	Minimum number of days between password changes, which must be less than the (Maximum Days Between Change minus the Warn Days Before Expire). Default is 0.
   Maximum Days Between Change	Maximum number of days between password changes. Default is 90.
   Warn Days Before Expire	Number of days to warn a user before their password expires, which must be less than (Maximum Days Between Change minus Minimum Days Between Change). Default is 7.
   Disable Days After Expire	Number of days after a password expires to disable a user account. You may type never or a number > or equal to 0. Default is never.
   Minimum Length of Password	Minimum password length required. Default is 9. Can be set to a value 9–31.
   Minimum Number of Character Classes	Minimum number of character classes required. Default is 4 and is not configurable. Character classes include and must have at least : One lowercase character (a-z) One uppercase character (A-Z) One numeric character (0-9) One special characters ($, %, #, +, and so on)
   Lowercase Character Requirement	Enable or disable the requirement for a least one lowercase character. Default is disabled.
   Uppercase Character Requirement	Enable or disable the requirement for a least one uppercase character. Default is disabled.
   Minimum numeric character	Enable or disable the requirement for a least one numeric character. Default is disabled.
   Minimum special character	Enable or disable the requirement for a least one special character. Default is disabled.
   Max Consecutive Character Requirement	Enable or disable the requirement for a maximum of three repeated characters. Default is enabled.
   Enforce password reuse history	Specify the number of remembered passwords. The range is 0–24. Default is 6.
   Maximum login tries	Specify the maximum number of login tries before a mandatory lock is applied to a user account. This limit applies to all user accounts, including sysadmin. A locked user cannot log in while the account is locked. The range is 4–20. Default is 4.
   Unlock timeout (seconds)	Specify how long a user account is locked after the maximum number of login tries. When the configured unlock timeout is reached, a user can re-attempt to log in. The range is 120–3,600 seconds. Default is 120 seconds.

3. Click Apply to save changes.