Password Policy

CloudM Manage gives Administrators the ability to configure password complexity policies for each Organization Unit and Smart Team within the domain.

To access these options, select Administrate > Security and chose the Organizational Unit or Smart Team that you wish to set a policy for. Then, select the Passwords tab and scroll down to the Password Policy section.

Password policies can be:

• Organizational Units - Set for the root OU and inherited, or explicitly set for each OU. 
• Smart Teams - Set to Enable to apply the policy to all users in the Smart Team, or to Disable to force the user's password policy to be set by the next Smart Team (set to Enable) they are part of, or the Organizational Unit if the user isn't part of any enabled Smart Team. 

You can set the following options:

• Minimum Password Length - This determines the minimum length of the password. Can be set to anything from 8-20 characters.
• Minimum Lower Case Characters - This determines the minimum number of lower case characters that must be present in the password. Can be set between 1-20 characters or no restriction.
• Minimum Upper Case Characters - This determines the minimum number of upper case characters that must be present in the password. Can be set between 1-20 characters or no restriction.
• Minimum Special Characters - This determines the minimum number of special characters, (`¬!"£$%^&*()-_=+[{]};:'@#~,<.>/?|\) that must be present in the password. Can be set between 1-20 characters or no restriction.
• Minimum Numbers - This determines the minimum number of numerical characters (1-9) that must be present in the password. Can be set between 1-20 characters or no restriction.
• Minimum Spaces - This determines the minimum number of spaces that must be present in the password. Can be set between 1-20 characters or no restriction.
• Google Password Rating - Passwords can be automatically checked against Google's database of known bad/poor passwords. This feature does not expose passwords.
  • This defines the required Google Password Rating required for the password. Can be set between Strong-Weak or no restriction.
• Require Re-login to Change Password - This determines whether or not users should be asked to log in once their password has been changed.