96 Managing User Passwords
NN47250-500 (Version 03.01)

Specifying minimum password length

To specify the minimum allowable length for user passwords, use the following command:
set authentication mi nimum-password-length length
The minimum password length has to be between 0 – 32 characters. Specifying 0 removes the restriction on password
length. By default, there is no minimum length for user passwords. When this command is configured, you cannot
configure a password shorter than the specified length.
When you enable this command, WSS evaluates the passwords configured on the WSS and a list of users whose
password does not meet the minimum length restriction appears.
For example, to set the minimum length for user passwords at 7 characters, type the following command:
WSS# set authentication minimum-password-length 7
warning: the following users have passwords that are shorter than the mi nimum password length -
administrator
admin
user2
admin2
success: change accepted.