Configuring Password Policy Settings Managing Switch User Accounts
page 9-16 OmniSwitch 6250/6450 Switch Management Guide May 2012
Configuring Password Policy Settings
The global password policy settings for the switch define the following requirements that are applied to all
user accounts:
• Minimum password size.
• Whether or not the password can contain the username.
• The minimum number of uppercase characters required in a password.
• The minimum number of uppercase characters required in a password.
• The minimum number of base-10 digits required in a password.
• The minimum number of non-alphanumeric characters (symbols) required in a password.
• Password expiration.
• The maximum number of old passwords that are saved in the password history.
• The minimum number of days during which a user is not allowed to change their password.
Password policy settings are applied when a password is created or modified. The following subsections
describe how to configure these settings using CLI commands.
To view the current policy configuration, use the show user password-policy command. For more infor-
mation about this command and those used in the configuration examples throughout this section, see the
OmniSwitch 6250/6450 CLI Reference Guide.
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