Configuring user account policies

Configure user account policies for user passwords, failed login attempts, and account lock-out recovery procedures, and more.

Before you begin

You must be assigned the Security administration role with permission to Manage security (Full permission) to perform these steps.

About this task

You can use the console or the REST API to complete this task. For the REST API information, see the Related information section.

Procedure

  1. Click Security and access > System Security.
  2. In the User Account Policies section, select or clear the check boxes in front of the individual policies to enable or disable them.
  3. For enabled policies, click the values beside the individual policies to change their values. The Minimum number of characters in password policy is always enabled and requires a value of at least 1. For descriptions of each value, see the Understanding user account policies parent topic link below.
  4. Click Save beside each value that you update.