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 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 (number of characters)
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 retries
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

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