Administrator Guide

Field Description
Random
Password
Type
(Required) Default method used to generate random account passwords (when creating groups of
accounts). This may be overridden by using the random_password_method field.
Random
Password
Length
(Required) Default length of random account passwords (when creating groups of accounts). This
may be overridden by using the random_password_length field.
Password
Format
(Required) Specifies the format of the password to be created. This may be overridden by using the
random_password_picture field. This field is displayed if the Password Type field is set to “Format
picture”. See "Format Picture String Symbols" on page 736 for a list of the special characters that
may be used in the format string.
Password
Complexity
(Required) Policy to enforce when guests change their account passwords using the guest self-
service user interface. Different levels of password complexity can require guests to select
passwords that contain different combinations of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits and
symbols (!#$%&()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_{|}~,).
Options include:
l No password complexity requirement
l At least one uppercase and one lowercase letter
l At least one digit
l At least one letter and one digit
l At least one of each: uppercase letter, lowercase letter, digit
l At least one symbol
l At least one of each: uppercase letter, lowercase letter, digit, and symbol
Minimum
Password
Length
(Required) Minimum acceptable password length for guests changing their account passwords. The
original default password length is six characters.
Disallowed
Password
Characters
(Required) Special characters that should not be allowed in a guest password. Spaces are not
allowed by default. You can specify special characters, numbers, and letters to exclude from
passwords—for example, letters and numbers that can look similar, such as i, l, 1, 0, O, o, 5, S, 8, B.
Disallowed
Password
Words
Comma- separated list of words that are disallowed and will not be created by the random words
password generator.
Password
Example
Displays a sample password generated according to the rules specified by the selections in the
Password Type and Password Length fields. You can click the Generate link to view different
examples.
Password
Logging
If selected, passwords for created guest accounts are logged in the application log and may be
recovered from there. For increased security, you may prevent this password from being logged by
deselecting this check box.
Password
Display
If selected, enables the display of visitor account passwords in the user list. To reveal passwords, the
password field must be added to the “guest_users” or “guest_edit” view, and the operator profile in
use must also have the View Passwords privilege.
Table 291: Configure Guest Manager Form, Password Options Area
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