Polycom 7000 User Manual

 

System Security

Polycom, Inc. 

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The Local Password page lets you increase system security by specifying age, length, and complexity 
requirements for the passwords of local administrator, auditor, and provisioner users. These rules don’t 
apply to conferencing users’ conference and chairperson passcodes, or to Active Directory users. 

The following table describes the fields on the Local Password page. 

See also: 

 

The Session page lets you increase system security by limiting the number and length of login sessions. 

You can see the current login sessions and terminate sessions by going to User > Login Sessions. See 

The following table describes the fields on the Session page. 

Password Management 

Maximum password age (days) 

Specify at what age a password expires (30-180 days). 

Minimum password age (days) 

Specify how frequently a password can be changed (1-30 days). 

Minimum length 

Specify the number of characters a password must contain (8-30). 

Minimum changed characters 

Specify the number of characters that must be different from the previous 
password (1-4). 

Reject previous passwords 

Specify how many of the user’s previous passwords the system remembers 
and won’t permit to be reused (8-30). 

Password Complexity 

Allow user name or its reverse 
form 

Turns off the protection against a password containing the user’s login name 
or its reverse. 

Lowercase letters 

Specify the number of lowercase letters (a-z) that a password must contain. 

Uppercase letters 

Specify the number of uppercase letters (A-Z) that a password must contain. 

Numbers 

Specify the number of digit characters (0-9) that a password must contain. 

Special characters 

Specify the number of non-alphanumeric keyboard characters that a 
password must contain. 

Maximum consecutive repeated 
characters 

Specify how many sequential characters may be the same.