Password Policy Configuration

Use the Policies Configuration page to define new policies. To configure the password policies options, double-click Configuration on the right-hand side of the screen.  The Password Policies Configuration page appears with the following options:

Combining Policies

Because several password policies can be assigned to a user, through direct assignment or because he or she is assigned to a role which has a policy assigned to it, multiple policies get combined. You must then decide how you want the different policies to be interpreted. This is done through a check box which allows you to choose the most restrictive or least restrictive policy when checking new passwords and when the user has more than one policy. For example:

• Policy A: Password Maximum Age = 10, Minimum Length = 4, Assigned to User A

• Policy B: Password Maximum Age = 20, Minimum Length = 6, Assigned to Role B

• User A is assigned to Role B

Both Policy A and Policy B apply to User A.  The values will be combined based on the choice on the Combining Policies page.

If Most Restrictive is chosen, when a new password is checked for User A, the Maximum Age will be 10 days and the Minimum Length will be 6. If Least Restrictive is chosen, Maximum Age will be 20 and Minimum Length will be 4.

The example was for just two policies, but any number of policies might apply to a user, and they would all be combined in this way.

1. Click the appropriate check box for the restriction level you want when combining policies for a given user:

• Most restrictive

• Least restrictive

2. Click Apply.

History

This page provides a way to manually document configuration changes and when they occurred. Changes made in Interaction Administrator are also automatically logged in the Interaction Administrator Change Notification Log (Log ID 7). Later, authorized users can run reports against this log to summarize all configuration changes.

Last Modified

This date is automatically updated each time the user clicks the OK button, presumably after making changes to the configuration. To avoid updating this date, exit the page by clicking the Cancel button.

Date Created

This date is automatically set when the user creates the initial configuration for this page. If the configuration was initially created by the IC Setup program, the date could be blank.

Notes

Type notes about configuration settings and changes. If you change the configuration page and click OK, the Last Modified date is updated.

You must manually enter the date beside each entry in the Notes field to identify the date of each note. To create a new line in the Notes field, press Ctrl+Enter.