Customizing login rules with the Responsive password policy

Overview

The Responsive password policy is an optional feature that allows you to customize the criteria required when establishing a password for Responsive. If enabled, this feature allows you to set rules for Responsive user passwords, and only passwords that comply with these personalized requirements will be accepted during account activation or password changes.

Your company IT policies require specific password criteria such as character type/limit, reset cycle, and historical password usage restriction.

Permissions

Only Admins with access to Organization Settings are able to set up the password requirements.

Select the applicable tab for your edition of Responsive.

• Enabling a password policy

  1. Go to Organization Settings >My Organization > Security. By default, Login Settings tab opens.
  2. Turn on the Passwords toggle to see the available options.
     
  3. Enter a minimum password length.
     Note: By default, the minimum password length will be set as 6. However, you can modify it to enter values between 6 and 99.
  4. Check the boxes associated with the rules you want to enable (such as Begin with alphabet or At least one uppercase letter).
  5. If you enable password expiration:
     
     1. Enter the value for password expiration period in days.
     2. Enter the number of days before which the user must be notified about password expiry.
        Note: The Notify Before value must be equal to or lesser than the Password Expiration Period value.
  6. If you enable password history, specify the count of old passwords that cannot be the same as the newly set password.
     Note: Values must be between 1 and 6.
  7. Click Submit.
     
     

• Essentials features are subscription-based and may not be available for all users. Contact your account manager, or accountmanagers@responsive.io, for more details.

  Enabling a password policy

  1. Go to Organization Settings >My Organization > Security. By default, Login Settings tab opens.
  2. Turn on the Passwords toggle to see the available options.
     
  3. Enter a minimum password length.
     Note: By default, the minimum password length will be set as 6. However, you can modify it to enter values between 6 and 99.
  4. Check the boxes associated with the rules you want to enable (such as Begin with alphabet or At least one uppercase letter).
  5. If you enable password expiration:
     
     1. Enter the value for password expiration period in days.
     2. Enter the number of days before which the user must be notified about password expiry.
        Note: The Notify Before value must be equal to or lesser than the Password Expiration Period value.
  6. If you enable password history, specify the count of old passwords that cannot be the same as the newly set password.
     Note: Values must be between 1 and 6.
  7. Click Submit.