Novell Documentation: Novell SecureLogin 6.0 - Password Policy Properties Table

3.9 Password Policy Properties Table

Organizations and applications often have rules about the content of passwords, including the required number and type of characters. The Password Policy Properties Table helps to create and enforce these password rules through a password policy, and apply this policy to one or more application logons.

Figure 3-14 Password Policy Properties table

You can access the Password Policy Properties Table in one of the following ways:

Click a policy under Password Policies in the navigation tree.
Double-click a policy in the Password Policies pane.

NOTE:You can configure password policies in the Password Policy Properties Table of the Administrative Management Utility, the SSO plug-in of the iManager, or Group Policy snap-ins

3.9.1 Password Policy Properties Table Fields

The following table describes the Password Policy Properties Table fields:

Table 3-14 Password Properties Table Fields Here

Rule	Value	Comment
Minimum length	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Maximum length	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Minimum punctuation characters	punctuation character	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Maximum punctuation characters	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Minimum uppercase characters	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Maximum uppercase characters	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Minimum lowercase characters	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Maximum lowercase characters	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Minimum numeric characters	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Maximum numeric characters	Whole number	Minimum zero, no upper limit.
Disallow repeat characters	No, Yes, and Yes, case insensitive	Yes is not case sensitive, therefore does not prohibit upper or lowercase of the same character.
Disallow duplicate characters	No, Yes, and Yes, case insensitive	Yes does not prohibit upper/lowercase of the same character.
Disallow sequential characters	No, Yes, and Yes, case insensitive	Yes is not case sensitive. This setting applies to any sequence direction, for example, 87654 and edcba.
Begin with uppercase character	Yes, No	Default is No.
Prohibited characters	Keyboard characters	Case sensitive.