Local Password Policy

A Password Complexity policy allows network Administrators to implement and enforce a password policy that meets the customers' security standards for local users (including root). This functionality enables Administrators to mandate the setting of complex passwords thus making it difficult for malicious agents to succeed in password attacks.

Enabling this feature:

• Enforces the use of complex passwords to improve security, see Set Password Complexity Requirements.

• Schedules expiry of passwords to enforce regular password updates, see Set Password Expiration Interval.

By default, the following settings are applied to passwords:

• Minimum length of eight characters.

• Must contain one uppercase letter.

• Must contain one number.

• Cannot contain usernames.

Note: Password policy such as complexity and expiry can only be configured by an Administrator. Password requirements are applied to all accounts.

Tip: Password policy may be enabled and configured via the WebUI, REST API, and ogcli. The password policy also applies to underlying CLI tools.