Chapter 10: Security Settings149Strong PasswordsStrong passwords provide more secure local authentication for thesystem. Using Strong Passwords, you can specify criteria defining theformat of valid Dominion KX II local passwords such as minimum andmaximum length, required characters, and password history retention.Figure 66: Security Settings (Strong Passwords)• Enable strong passwords. Strong passwords require user-createdpasswords to have a minimum of 8 characters with at least onealphabetical character and one non-alphabetical character(punctuation character or number). In addition, the first fourcharacters of the password and the username cannot match.When checked, strong password rules are enforced. Users withpasswords not meeting strong password criteria will automaticallybe required to change their password on their next login. Whencleared, only the standard format validation is enforced. Whenchecked, the following fields are enabled and required: Minimum length of strong password. Passwords must be at least8 characters long. The default is 8, but it can be up to 63. Maximum length of strong password. The default is 16, but canbe up to 64 characters long. Enforce at least one lower case character. When checked, at leastone lower case character is required in the password. Enforce at least one upper case character. When checked, at leastone upper case character is required in the password. Enforce at least one numeric character. When checked, at leastone numeric character is required in the password.
