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Overview
A good password policy is crucial for safeguarding sensitive information and protecting against unauthorized access to WiredUp. Following the steps below to configure your password policy.
Configuring Password Policy
To set up the password policy, follow the below steps:
On the ribbon tab, click Administration. If the Administration tab does not appear on your ribbon, click on the drop down menu under More on the ribbon and select Administration from the list.
Under the General section, click Organisational Structure and you will be presented with an overview page. Click the Configuration tab and select Password Policy from the System section.
Here, you can set up a site-wide policy for user passwords. Any new password created will need to conform to the policy.
Minimum Password Length: This is the minimum amount of characters a password should have
Maximum Consecutive Characters: How many of the same characters can be in a password. Eg. ppp@ss
Maximum Password Age (in days): After how many days should the password expire. If set to 7, this would mean every 7 days the user is required to set a new password
Enforce Password History: Should this have a value (10 for example), when a user creates a new password, the last 10 passwords should not be the same
Requires Uppercase: Should the password contain a minimum of one uppercase character/letter
Require Lowercase: Should the password contain a minimum of one lowercase character/letter
Requires Number: Should the password contain one numeric character
Requires Special Character: Should the password contain a special character such as !@#$%()&