Polycom 7000 Local Password, Session, Field Description Password Management, Password Complexity

System Security

Local Password

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.

Field	Description
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	Turns off the protection against a password containing the user’s login name
form	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	Specify how many sequential characters may be the same.
characters

See also:

System Security

Login Policy Settings

Session

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 Login Sessions.

The following table describes the fields on the Session page.

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