Password Strength Rules

The platform user and any users created are held to strong password rules to help reduce the risk of system penetration. These rules are enforced whenever passwords are changed or set. In order to meet system password strength rules a user’s password must:

• By default be at least 8 characters long. This can be modified with the user password length <min_length> command. See User Security and Security Policy Management.

• Contain at least one capital and one non-capital letter.

• Contain at least one number.

• Contain at least one special character.

• A password change should differ by at least 8 characters from the old password. In other words, if an old password was 8 characters, then all new password characters should differ.