Rules
Your user identification and password are
assigned to you initially by your access administrator.
Afterwards, you can change your password while logging on the
Hardware Management Console.
If you do not know your password,
contact your access administrator or whoever is responsible for
controlling access to the console.
The following rules apply to user identifications.
Unless Strict password rules enabled for this user is selected,
the following rules also apply to passwords:
- User identifications and passwords are 4 to 32 characters long.
- Valid characters are:
Character |
Description |
a to z |
Letters (uppercase or lowercase)
|
0 to 9 |
Numbers |
The entry field is not case-sensitive.
For convenience you can enter letters in either case.
For example, PALADIN, paladin, Paladin, and pALaDin are all treated
the same.
Unless the Strict password rules enabled for this user
check box is selected, the password does not expire.
If the Strict password rules enabled for this user check box
is selected, the following rules apply to passwords:
- Passwords expire in 1 to 180 days.
- A password must be at least 6 characters long.
- A password must contain both letters and numbers.
- The first and last character in a password must be a letter.
- No character can repeat more the twice.