Is it possible to set password strength?

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Hi! I have a case were the customer wants to give access to S&M 7 Web to both AD users and external users. Naturally the system administrtor wants to set a minimun password strength (number of characters and complexity) on SuperOffice authentication for users without AD authentication.

I think I have heard a rumor that this was possible in 6.3, but were do you set it?

I have looked through all perefernces (even the hidden ones) but can't find it.
Current version: SuperOffice S&M Web 7.1 B3

 

Any suggestions or have I been dreaming?

G
goranf
22 Mar 2012 | 12:00 AM

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hey.

i dont think (atleast, I have never seen it) that you can do that in SOWeb.
You can do it in CustomerService (ejournal). thou under Settings-> System -> Password

22 Mar 2012 | 12:00 AM

Hi Göran, yes, this was implemented as a hidden preference in 6.3.1.175, a hotfix version between 6.3 and 6.3 SR1.

You need to add a row to crm5.userpreference;

prefsection = System

prefkey = PasswordPolicy

prefvalue = "MinTotal=7&MinNum=1&Msg=Password must be at least 6 chars and 1 number"

where MinTotal is the minimum length, and MinNum is the minimum count of numbers.

22 Mar 2012 | 12:00 AM

Thank you guys for quick respons!

I'll will try it out ASAP

 

/Göran

22 Mar 2012 | 12:00 AM

From CRM 7 the password policy must be handled by AD, the red alert Frode refers to was just for 6.3 while waiting for 7 to be released.

23 Mar 2012 | 12:00 AM

Hi!

The posibillity to set a password strength is now avalible in the released version of 7.1. It is an open preference under system and you can set it as shown below:
"Minimum length and contents of passwords. Format: type=value&type2=value2&...   types: MinTotal (minimum total length); MinNum (digits 0-9); MinLC (lowercase characters); MinUC (uppercase characters); MinSpec (any other, special characters). Each value defines the minimum number of characters of the type. Undefined values default to 0. Msg=text defines the text shown to the user, for passwords that do not fulfill the requirements, instead of the standard system message."

Works great in Admin and in S&M Win. In S&M Web it only displays "wrong password" if the password strength is not fullfilled.

Thanks R&D for adding this! :-)

 

24 May 2012 | 12:00 AM

How about a manadtory expiration date? Can I set the password to expire e.g. every 3 months? I cannot use AD, as our userbase consists of users in various location (and in 5-6 different AD's)

Henrik

 

P.S. Running 7.5

16 Jun 2014 | 12:00 AM

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