HP 6125XLG R2306-HP 6125XLG Blade Switch Security Command Reference - Page 140

Usage guidelines You can enable both username checking and repeated character checking. After the password complexity checking is enabled, complexity-incompliant passwords will be refused. Examples # Configure the password complexity checking policy, refusing any password that contains the username or the reverse of the username. system-view [Sysname] password-control complexity user-name check Related commands display password-control password-control composition Use password-control composition to configure the password composition policy. Use undo password-control composition to restore the default. Syntax password-control composition type-number type-number [ type-length type-length ] undo password-control composition Default In non-FIPS mode, the password using the global composition policy must contain at least one character type and at least one character for each type. In FIPS mode, the password using the global composition policy must contain four character types and at least one character for each type. In both non-FIPS and FIPS modes, the password composition policy for a user group is the same as the global policy, and the password composition policy for a local user is the same as that of the user group to which the local user belongs. Views System view, user group view, local user view Predefined user roles network-admin Parameters type-number type-number: Specifies the minimum number of character types that a password must contain. The value range for the type-number argument is 1 to 4 in non-FIPS mode, and is fixed at 4 in FIPS mode. type-length type-length: Specifies the minimum number of characters that are from each type in the password. The value range for the type-length argument is 1 to 63 in non-FIPS mode, and 1 to 15 in FIPS mode. The following character types are available: • Uppercase letters A to Z. • Lowercase letters a to z. • Digits 0 to 9. • Special characters in Table 17. 131