User's Manual

2. Click Authentication Services in the top navigation bar. The User Authentication Services
window will open.
3. Click RPM Internal. The side navigation bar will change to include RPM Internal at the
top and, below the name, the information you may define.
4. Click Account Policies. The Authentication Service User Account Policies - RPM Internal
window will open.
5. Specify the password policies for the authentication service:
a. Type a number (from 1-64) in the Minimum Password Length field, or click the arrows
to select a number.
b. Check the Passwords Expire checkbox to require a user to change the password after a
certain number of days. Specify a number (from 1-365) in the Maximum Expiration
(days) field, or select a number.
c. Select Passwords must contain both alpha and numeric characters if new passwords
must contain at least one letter and one number.
d. Select Passwords must contain both lower and upper case characters if new
passwords must contain at least one uppercase and one lowercase letter.
6. Specify the lockout policy for the authentication service:
To assign a specific number of user login attempts, check the Lockout users after
invalid login attempts checkbox, then continue with step a.
If you leave this checkbox unchecked, unlimited user login attempts will be allowed.
Skip to the last step.
a. Type the number of allowable user login failures (from 1-25) in the Maximum Login
Failures field, or select it from the menu.
b. To permit user logins after a certain period of time, check the Automatically unlock
users after the lockout period checkbox. Specify the lockout period (in minutes) by
typing a number from 1-1,440 in the Maximum Lockout Period (minutes) field, or
choose a value from the menu (1,440 minutes is equivalent to 24 hours).
If you leave this checkbox unchecked, locked user accounts must be manually
unlocked by a Rack Power Manager software administrator or user
administrator.
See Unlocking User Accounts on page 214.
7. Click Save and then click Close. The User Authentication Services window will open.
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