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Configure Advanced Password Options

Advanced password policy options allow you to configure pre-processing of submitted passwords prior to validation and storage (for example, forcing all characters to upper case) and to assign the policy a priority to allow predictable evaluation of multiple password policies that apply to the same user directory or namespace.

• Do Not Force Case | Force Upper Case | Force Lower Case

  Determine whether passwords should be forced to upper or lower case before processing and storage. Choose a case forcing option by clicking the Force Upper Case or Force Lower Case radio button. Otherwise ensure that the Do Not Force Case radio button (the default) is selected.

  Important! Be careful to ensure that any case forcing option that you specify is consistent with any case-related composition requirements you have defined.

• Remove Leading White Space

  Select to remove leading white space from passwords before processing.

• Remove Trailing White Space

  Select to remove trailing white space removed from passwords before processing.

• Remove Embedded White Space

  Select to remove all embedded white space before processing.

  Note: Some user directory implementations automatically strip leading and/or trailing white space from attribute values (in which user passwords are stored) before storing them regardless of the settings you specify in your password policy.

• Evaluation Priority

  Specifies the evaluation priority for the password policy. The value should be in the range 0 (the default) to 999. Applicable policies are evaluated in descending order (999 first; 0 last).

• Apply Lower Priority Password Policies

  Determines whether lower priority password policies are applied after this one.

  Note: This field is available only when CA Identity Manager integrates with SiteMinder.