Appendix: Default Password Policy Settings for Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation

The password policies determine the password expiration, complexity, and lockout for VMware Aria Operations in the SDDC.

VMware Aria Operations

Table 1. Default Password Expiration Policy for VMware Aria Operations

Local User	Setting	Default	Description
root	maxdays	365	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 for VMware Aria Operations

Setting	Default	Description
dcredit	-1	Minimum number of numerical characters required.
ucredit	-1	Minimum number of uppercase characters required.
lcredit	-1	Minimum number of lowercase characters required.
ocredit	-1	Minimum number of special characters required.
minlen	8	Minimum total number of characters required.
minclass	4	Minimum number of character classes required (e.g., uppercase, lowercase, numerical, special.)
difok	8	Minimum number of unique characters different from the previous password.
retry	3	Maximum number of retries allowed.
maxrepeat	0	Maximum number of sequential characters allowed.
remember	5	Maximum number of previous passwords remembered.

Table 3. Default Account Lockout Policy for VMware Aria Operations

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.