Password Policy

Tenant administrators can update the password policy for Palette users. The default password policy is as follows.

• The password must be at least six characters long.
• The password must be at most 64 characters long.
• The password expires after 365 days.
• The password must contain at least one uppercase letter.
• The password must contain at least one lowercase letter.
• The password must contain at least one digit.
• The password must contain at least one special character.

If you want to change the default password policy, follow the steps below.

Prerequisites

• Palette tenant admin access.

Update Password Policy

1. Log in to Palette as a tenant admin.

2. Navigate to the left main menu and select Tenant Settings.

3. From the Tenant Settings Menu, select Password Policy.

4. Set up the password policy using the configuration fields.

   Configuration	Description
   Enable Regex	Enable if you want to specify the password policy using a regular expression.
   Regex	Specify a regular expression that the passwords must conform to.
   Expiry Duration	Set a password expiry time. Select from 3 months, 6 months, and Custom.
   Expiry Duration (Days)	If you have selected Custom expiry duration, specify a number of days for password expiry.
   First Reminder (Days)	Specify the number of days before the password expires to send the first reminder email to users.
   Min Length	Specify the minimum length of the password. The configured value must be between 6 and 128 and should not exceed the Max Length.
   Max Length	Specify the maximum length of the password. The configured value must be between 6 and 128 and should not be less than the Min Length.
   Min Number Of Block Letters	Specify the minimum number of uppercase letters in the password. The configured value must be larger than 1.
   Min Number Of Digits	Specify the minimum number of digits in the password. The configured value must be larger than 1.
   Min Number Of Small Letters	Specify the minimum number of lowercase letters in the password. The configured value must be larger than 1.
   Min Number Of Special Characters	Specify the minimum number of special characters in the password. The configured value must be larger than 1.

5. Click on Save to apply the changes.

Validate

1. Log in to Palette as a tenant admin.

2. Navigate to your username and select My Profile.

3. Enter a new password in the New Password field. You can test the password policy with different values. For example, you can enter an all lowercase password to ensure that the configured number of uppercase characters is enforced.