Advanced Password Services (APS) Guide › APS Configuration File › Change Required

Change Required

These settings are used to require that the user change a certain amount of his password each time that it is changed. Thus, the user can be prevented from changing their password from ABCD1 to ABCD2 if you wish.

There are two settings here. To turn off this checking, set Percentage to zero or comment it out.

Percentage checking takes two forms:

• If Percentage Sequencing is OFF (not specified), then the percentage checking is on overall character counts. APS counts the number of each character and the new password cannot share Percentage percent of common characters. 100% could make life difficult for users.
• If Percentage Sequencing is ON (specified), then the percentage checking is on a character by character basis. Percentage percent of each character position must change. This does not detect a change between BASEBALL12 and 12BASEBALL.

Percentage

Range: 0-100

Default: 0

Recommended: 0

Complexity Level: Advanced

This setting determines the percentage of the characters within a new password that must be different from the last one. A setting of 100% would require that all characters be different from one password to the next change.

Percentage=0
Percentage={@Customers} 50

Percentage Sequencing

Range: Yes or No

Default: No

Recommended: Yes

Complexity Level: Advanced

If this option is selected, the actual position of the characters in the new password is used when Password Services determines the actual percentage difference.

Percentage Sequencing