Set user policy

We can change the user policy settings for specific users, such as password policies, login-failure policies, access policies, and account expiration policies with the Web Portal Manager or pdadmin utility.

• The valid range for numbers can be any number. However, use a reasonable number for the task that we want to do. For example, a minimum password length must be long enough to protect your system. The minimum length must not be so short as to make it easy for someone to determine your password by trying different combinations.
• When defining the password policy, ensure that this definition complies with the password policy of the underlying operating systems and user registries.
• When using Security Directory Server as your user registry, we can take advantage of its password history policy. For additional information about setting the password history policy when using Security Directory Server as our user registry, see Set the password history policy.
• When modifying a password policy, you provide a list of days, start time, and end time. The start time and end time apply to each day on the list. If the specified start time is greater than the specified end time, then the access is allowed until the specified end time of the next day.

• Set user policy with Web Portal Manager
  We can change policy settings for a specific user with Web Portal Manager.
• Set user policy with pdadmin
  We can set or change user policy settings with the pdadmin utility.

Parent topic: Manage users