Whiteboard Accessories User Manual

70 Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board Installation and User’s Guide May 2003
Setting the Password Requirements
Use the set passreq command to set the password requirements for the Sun
Crypto Accelerator 4000 board. This command sets the password character
requirements for any password prompted by vcaadm. There are three settings for
password requirements:
To change the password requirements, enter the set passreq command followed
by low, med,orhigh. The following commands set the password requirements for a
Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board to high:
Populating a Keystore With Security Officers
There may be more than one security officer for a keystore. Security officer names
are known only within the domain of the Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 board and do
not need to be identical to any user name on the host system.
TABLE 4-5 Password Requirement Settings
Password Setting Requirements
low Does not require any password restrictions. This is the default while
the board is in non-FIPS mode.
med Requires six characters minimum, one character must be
nonalphabetic. This is the default setting while the board is in FIPS
140-2 mode and is the minimum password requirements allowed in
FIPS 140-2 mode.
high Requires eight characters minimum, three characters must be
alphabetic, and one character must be nonalphabetic. This is not a
default setting and must be configured manually.
vcaadm{vcaN@hostname, sec_officer}> set passreq high
vcaadm{vcaN@hostname, sec_officer}> set passreq
Password security level (low/med/high): high