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3. Click LDAP Test.

Password management procedures

Changing your password

To change your administrator account password:

1. Log in to the Management Console using your administrator account.

2. Navigate to the Change Your Password section of the Administrator Configuration page (Device

Configuration > Administrators > Password Management).

3. Enter your current password in the Current Password field.

4. Enter a new password in the New Password and Confirm New Password fields.

5. Click Change Password.

Configuring password settings for local administrators

To configure password settings for local administrators:

1. Log in to the Management Console as an administrator with High Access Administrators access

control.

2. Navigate to the Password Settings for Local Administrators section of the Administrator

Configuration page (Device Configuration > Administrators > Password Management).

3. Click Edit.

4. To enable password expiration, enter the Maximum Password Age in the Password Expiration

field. When an administrator's password reaches this age, the administrator will be forced to

create a new password.

5. To enable password history, enter the Num Passwords to Remember in the Password History

field. When creating a new password, an administrator cannot use a value that exists in their

password history.

NOTE:

The password history is only consulted when administrators attempt to change their own

passwords. It is not checked when one administrator changes another's password.

6. Enter the Minimum Password Length.

7. Specify if the password must contain at least one lower case letter, upper case letter, number,

or special character, or some combination of these values.

8. Click Save.

Changing passwords when a security officer leaves

In the event of a security officer personnel change, immediately change the passwords for administrator

accounts, user accounts, and backups in order to protect integrity of the SKM system and the data

protected by the encryption keys. This procedure should be handled quickly but deliberately, so that

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