Appendix: Default Password Policy Settings for vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager for VMware Cloud Foundation

The appendix aggregates the default password policy settings for vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager. You can use this password policy settings list for reference when you perform password management.

vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager

Table 1. Default Password Expiration Policy for vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager

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. Default Password Complexity Policy for vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager

Setting	Default	Description
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
maxsequence	0	Maximum number of times a single character can be repeated
retry	3	Maximum number of retries
remember	5	Maximum number of passwords the system remembers

Table 3. Additional Password Complexity Policy Settings for vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager

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

Table 4. Default Account Lockout Policy for vSphere Replication and Site Recovery Manager

Setting	Default	Description
deny	5	Maximum number of authentication failures before the account is locked
unlock_time	1800	Amount of time in seconds that the account remains locked
root_unlock_time	1800	Amount of time in seconds that the root account remains locked