The appendix aggregates the default password policy settings for the VMware HCX Connector appliance. You can use this password policy settings list for reference when you perform password management.

VMware HCX Connector Appliance

Table 1. Default Password Expiration Policy for the HCX Connector Appliance
Local User Setting Default Description
root maxdays 99999 Maximum number of days between password change
mindays 0 Minimum number of days between password change
warndays 7 Number of days of warning before a password expires
admin maxdays -1 Maximum number of days between password change
mindays -1 Minimum number of days between password change
warndays -1 Number of days of warning before a password expires

Table 2. Default Password Complexity Policy for Local Users for the HCX Connector Appliance

Setting

Default

Description

dcredit

 1

Maximum number of digits that will generate a credit

ucredit

1

Maximum number of uppercase characters that will generate a credit

lcredit

1

Maximum number of lowercase characters that will generate a credit

ocredit

1

Maximum number of other characters that will generate a credit
minlen 8

Minimum password length in character number

minclass

4

Minimum number of character types that must be used (that is, uppercase, lowercase, digits, other)

difok

4

Minimum number of characters that must be different from the old password

retry

3

Maximum number of retries

maxrepeat

0

Maximum number of times a single character may be repeated

remember

10

Maximum number of passwords the system remembers

Table 3. Default Account Lockout Policy for the HCX Connector Appliance

Setting

Default

Description
deny 3 Maximum number of authentication failures before the account is locked
unlock_time 86400 Amount of time in seconds that the account remains locked
root_unlock_time 300 Amount of time in seconds that the root account remains locked