Cisco Cisco Content Security Management Appliance M1070 Mode D'Emploi

Submit and commit your changes. 

Require users to change their passwords to new passwords that meet the new requirements. See 

To require all or selected users to change their passwords at any time on an ad-hoc basis, perform the 
steps in this procedure. This is a one-time action. 

To automate a periodic requirement for changing passwords, use the Password Reset option described in 

. 

Choose Management Appliance > System Administration > Users. 

In the Users section, select the check boxes beside the users who will be required to change passwords .

Select Enforce Password Changes. 

Password Strength

You can display a password-strength indicator when an admin or user enters 
a new password. 

This setting does not enforce creation of strong passwords, it merely shows 
how easy it is to guess the entered password. 

Select the roles for which you wish to display the indicator. Then, for each 
selected role, enter a number greater than zero. A larger number means that a 
password that registers as strong is more difficult to achieve. This setting has 
no maximum value. 

Examples:

If you enter 

30

, then an 8 character password with at least one upper- and 

lower-case letter, number, and special character will register as a strong 
password. 

If you enter 

18

, then an 8 character password with all lower case letters 

and no numbers or special characters will register as strong. 

Password strength is measured on a logarithmic scale. Evaluation is based on 
the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology rules of entropy as 
defined in NIST SP 800-63, Appendix A. 

Generally, stronger passwords:

Are longer 

Include upper case, lower case, numeric, and special characters

Do not include words in any dictionary in any language. 

To enforce passwords with these characteristics, use the other settings on this 
page.