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Content Minimums Group Box
The Content Minimums group box is where you configure the types of characters required in passwords by specifying whether each character type should be allowed and, if so, the minimum number of those characters that should be in each password. For example, a policy could require that passwords contain all numbers, disallow any punctuation, at least three letters, or at least two numbers and four letters characters.
Note: When configuring password composition settings, consider the maximum password length when determining values for character requirements. If the total number of letters and/or numbers required exceeds the maximum password length then all passwords will be rejected. For example, if Letters is set to 6 and Digits is set to 6, all passwords must contain at least 12 characters (6 letters and 6 digits). In this example scenario, if a maximum password length of 8 characters is specified, the Policy Server will reject all passwords.
The Content Minimums group box contains several fields, each with an Allow check box and a Minimum entry box. Disallow any of the character types from passwords by deselecting their Allow check box. Specify the minimum number of any character type by entering an integer value in its Minimum field. By default all character types are allowed (that is the option is checked), and there is no minimum number of each character type specified.
The character type fields are:
Specifies whether to allow upper case alphabetic characters and, if so, the minimum number a password must contain.
Specifies whether to allow lower case alphabetic characters and, if so, the minimum number a password must contain.
Specifies whether to allow numbers and, if so, the minimum a password must contain.
Specifies whether to allow either letters or numbers (upper or lower case, a-Z; 0-9) and if so, the minimum number a password must contain. If this setting is set in conjunction with Letters or Digits, characters can satisfy both requirements. For example, if Digits and Either are set to 4, the password “1234— is a valid password.
Specifies whether to allow punctuation marks, and if so, the minimum number a password should contain. These can be periods, commas, exclamation marks, slashes, dashes, and hyphens.
Note: The characters that are considered as punctuation characters conform to POSIX standards.
Specifies whether to allow non-printable characters, and if so, the minimum number a password should contain. These characters cannot be displayed on a computer screen.
Important! Use this setting with caution. Certain browsers do not support non-printable characters.
Specifies whether to allow non-alphanumeric characters such as punctuation marks and other symbols located on the keyboard (“@—, “$—, and “*—) and if so, the minimum number a password should contain. Non-printable characters are also included. A non-alphanumeric character also satisfies Punctuation and Non-printable character requirements.
Note: The characters that are considered as non-alphanumeric characters conform to POSIX standards.
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