Password rules

You can define security parameters for the assignment of passwords by specifying password rules. From then on, these rules will be applied when assigning or changing passwords.

You can specify the following values when defining password rules:

• Password complexity
• Minimum password length
• Number of passwords to be saved

With “password complexity”, you specify whether a password has to consist of the following character groups:

A password must include three of the following four character types:

• Upper-case letters (A–Z)
• Lower-case letters (a–z)
• Numerals (0–9)
• Non-alphanumeric characters (such as !,”,§,$), extended-ASCII-set characters, symbols or linguistic characters.
• A password must not contain parts of the first name, last name or login name

With “minimum password length”, you specify the minimum number of characters a password must contain. “Number of passwords to be saved” defines the number of previous passwords a newly assigned password must be compared with. A newly assigned password will be rejected if it matches one of these stored passwords.