10.1 Creating a Required Password Policy

In order for the Resource Kit scenarios to work properly, you need to create a password policy.

  1. Log in to iManager as admin. (https://172.17.2.117:8443/nps/iManager.html)

  2. Click Passwords > Password Policies, then click New.

    Creating a new password policy

  3. Leave the default value of Password Policies.Security for the container value.

    Container for the password policy

  4. Specify Default Security in the Policy Name field.

    Policy name

  5. Specify Password policy for the Resource Kit for the Description.

    Policy description

  6. For the Password Change Message field, specify Please change your password.

    Password change message

  7. Select the option to Create a new Password Policy based on default settings, then click Next.

    Option for creating a new password policy based on the default settings

  8. Read the summary of the policy, then click Finish.

    Summary of the password policy

  9. Click Close in the success message.

    Success message

  10. Click in the policy you created to edit it.

    Selecting the new policy to modify

  11. Click the Universal Password tab, then click Advanced Password Rules.

    Advanced Password Rules under the Universal Password tab

  12. Verify that the following options are set:

    • Under Change Password settings, select Allow user to initiate password change.

    • Under Password Syntax settings, select Use Novell Syntax.

    • Under Password Length settings, select and specify the minimum value (4) and maximum value (12).

    • Under Case Sensitive settings, select the Allow password to be case sensitive option.

    • Under Numeric Character settings, select Allow numeric characters in password.

    • Under Special Character settings, select Allow special characters in the password and Allow non-US ASCII characters.

  13. Click Apply.

  14. Click the Policy Assignment tab, then click the Object Selector icon.

    Policy Assignments tab

  15. Browse to and select the users.company.data container for the policy assignment, then click OK.

    Selecting the users.company.data container

  16. Click OK to save the change, then click Close to exit the Password Policy task.

  17. Exit iManager.

  18. Proceed to Section 10.2, Enabling the Password Expiration Notification Job.