Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C370 User Guide

Password Rules: 

Require at least <number> 
characters. 

Enter the minimum number of characters that a password may contain.

Enter any number between 0 and 128. 

Default is 8 characters. 

Passwords can have more characters than the number you specify here. 

Password Rules:

Require at least one number 
(0-9).

Choose whether or not the passwords must contain at least one 
number.

Password Rules:

Require at least one special 
character.

Choose whether or not the passwords must contain at least one special 
character. Passwords may contain the following special characters:

~ ? ! @ # $ % ^ & * - _ + =

 

\ | / [ ] ( ) < > { } ` ' " ; : , .

 

Password Rules:

Ban usernames and their 
variations as passwords.

Choose whether or not the password are allowed to be the same as the 
associated username or variations on the username. When username 
variations are banned, the following rules apply to passwords:

The password may not be the same as the username, regardless of 
case.

The password may not be the same as the username in reverse, 
regardless of case.

The password may not be the same as the username or reversed 
username with the following character substitutions:

"@" or "4" for "a"

"3" for "e"

"|", "!", or "1" for "i"

"0" for "o"

"$" or "5" for "s"

"+" or "7" for "t"

Password Rules:

Ban reuse of the last 
<number> passwords.

Choose whether or not users are allowed to choose a recently used 
password when they are forced to change the password. If they are not 
allowed to reuse recent passwords, enter the number of recent 
passwords that are banned from reuse.

You can enter any number from one (1) to 15. Default is three (3).