1. Use Netscape Console to reach the Directory Server administration
window. Select the
Configuration tab and then click
on the Database icon (the little green barrel).
2. Select the Passwords tab in the right pane. This
tab contains the password policy for the Directory
Server.
3. You can specify that users must change their password the first
time they log on by selecting the
Must change after reset checkbox.
4. To specify that users can change their own passwords, select
the May change password
checkbox.
5. If you do not want user passwords to expire, select the Password
never Expires radio button.
6. If you want users to have to change their passwords periodically,
select the Password Expires
After X Days radio button and then enter the
number of days that a user password is valid.
7. If you have turned password expiration on, you need to specify
how long before the password
expires to send a warning to the user by entering
the number of days in the Send Warning X Days
Before Password Expires text box.
8. If you want the server to check the syntax of a user password to
make sure it meets the minimum
requirements set by the password policy, select the
Check Password Syntax checkbox.
9. If you turn password syntax checking on, you need to specify
the minimum acceptable length in the
Password Minimum Length text box.
10. If you want, you can specify that users cannot change their
password for a specific amount of time
by entering the number of days in
the Allow Changes in X Days text box.
11. To configure the server to maintain a history list of passwords
used by each user, select the Keep
Password History checkbox.
12. If you configure the server to keep password histories, specify
the number of passwords you want
the server to keep for each user in
the
Remember X Passwords text box.
13. Specify what encryption method you want the server to use
when storing passwords from the
Storage Scheme pull-down menu.
14. When you have finished making changes to the password policy, click
Save.