Password Properties

This panel enables you to determine the combination of characters that make up your password. The fields are:

• Password Must Contain : Select the required option depending on whether your password should be made up of alphabets, numerals, a combination of both, and whether it should also include special characters. By default, your password will contain alphanumeric characters.
• Password Cannot Start With : Determine which characters your password should not start with. The options available in this section depend on the options selected in the Password May Contain section.
• Clear the check box Do not allow the same character more than once if you want characters in your password to be repeated. By default, the check box is selected.
• Specify the minimum and maximum password lengths, the minimum and maximum upper case and lower case alphabetic characters, and the minimum alphabetic and numeric characters that the password must contain. These are the default settings :
  • Minimum Password Length - 8
  • Maximum Password Length - 20
  • Minimum alphabetic characters - 1
  • Minimum upper case alphabetic characters - 0
  • Minimum lower case alphabetic characters - 0
  • Minimum numeric characters - 1
  • Minimum special characters - 0