The appendix aggregates the default password policy settings for VMware Aria Operations for Logs. You can use this password policy settings list for reference when you perform password management.

VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Table 1. Default Password Expiration Policy for VMware Aria Operations for Logs

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

Table 2. Password Complexity Policy for VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Setting

Sample value

Description

dcredit

-1

Maximum number of digits that generate a credit

ucredit

-1

Maximum number of uppercase characters that generate a credit

lcredit

-1

Maximum number of lowercase characters that generate a credit

ocredit

-1

Maximum number of other characters that generate a credit

minlen

8

Minimum password length

minclass

4

Minimum number of character types that must be used (for example, uppercase, lowercase, digits, and so on)

difok

4

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

retry

3

Maximum number of reties

maxrepeat

0

Maximum number of identical consecutive characters in the new password

remember

5

Maximum number of passwords the system remembers

Table 3. Default Account Lockout Policy for VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Setting

Default

Description

deny

3

Maximum number of authentication failures before the account is locked

unlock_time

0

Amount of time in seconds that the account remains locked

root_unlock_time

600

Amount of time in seconds that the root account remains locked