User's Manual

About Weak and Strong Passwords

Changing User Passwords

About Weak and Strong Passwords

The Xerox

Freeflow

Print Server provides the means for enforcing a strong password

policy.

Weak passwords do not meet strict security guidelines. The only requirement for weak

passwords is that they contain zero to eight alphanumeric characters, as determined by

the system administrator.

Strong passwords can help you meet strict security guidelines. Strong passwords must

contain all of the following criteria:

• At least eight characters

• At least one upper case, alphabetic character

• At least one numeric character (0-9)

• At least one special character including, but not limited to: !, @, $, %, period (.),

underscore (_), and hyphen (-)

The following behaviors apply to the Strong Password policy:

• Strong Password Checking is disabled by default.

• The Strong Password policy applies to all accounts.

• The Strong Password policy and the Login Attempts Allowed policies can be controlled

independently.

The Strong Password feature can be enabled by account level. When the feature is

enabled for a user level, new users of that account level must create a strong password

for their account. The passwords for existing users of that account level can remain the

same. Users can continue to use their passwords because the passwords were created

before the Strong Password feature was enabled.