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Configuring Password Complexity

Password complexity allows you to define how complex a password must be. For instance you can force the use of uppercase characters, digits, or special characters.

Before you begin

  • You must have full access to the application server.

Procedure

  1. On the Content Manager application server, click start > Run.
  2. In the Open field, type regedit.
  3. Open the hierarchy: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Wow6432Node > Trisoft > TriDK > TridkApp and click on InfoShareAuthor.
  4. To configure password complexity, double-click on the key AuthPasswordComplexityPattern in the right pane of the window, and change the Value data to a regular expression that is VBscript compliant.
    For example, the regular expression: ^.*(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[@#$%^&+=]).*$ means that the password must contain at least:
    • one digit (?=.*\d)
    • one lower case character (?=.*[a-z])
    • one upper case character (?=.*[A-Z])
    • one special character from the characters specified:(?=.*[@#$%^&+=])