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Password Policies

A policy is a set of rules that defines behavior.

You can use CA Directory to set up password policies to manage your user accounts. A password policy applies to the userPassword attribute, which contains the password that users enter when binding to a DSA using simple authentication.

The password policy settings control the following areas:

• Authentication
• Password strength
• Account control and password management

In previous releases, you could define only one password policy for each DSA. From CA Directory r12 SP12, you can apply many password policies to each DSA.

You can define password policies in the directory and in an application. However, we recommend that you do not set up a password policy within CA Directory if another application also handles password policies.