Setting Administrator Password Policy

You can create your own password policy for administrators accounts on EverTrust OCSP.

The default password policy requires the use of a minimum 8-character password without any other criteria of complexity.

You can combine the following complexity criteria to create your own password policy:

Configuration file parameter	Signification
validation.length.min	Minimum length
validation.length.max	Maximum length
validation.lower.case.min	Minimum number of lowercase characters
validation.upper.case.min	Minimum number of uppercase characters
validation.digit.min	Minimum number of digits
validation.special.min	Minimum number of special characters

Configuration file parameter

Signification

validation.length.min

Minimum length

validation.length.max

Maximum length

validation.lower.case.min

Minimum number of lowercase characters

validation.upper.case.min

Minimum number of uppercase characters

validation.digit.min

Minimum number of digits

validation.special.min

Minimum number of special characters

Step 1: Access the server through SSH with an account with administrative privileges;

Step 2: Modify the following configuration file '/opt/ocspd/etc/ocspd.conf' to set up your password policy:

authentication {
    password {
      [...]
      validation.length.min=
      validation.length.max=
      validation.upper.case.min=
      validation.lower.case.min=
      validation.digit.min=
      validation.special.min=
    }

Step 3: Restart the OCSPd service with the following command:

# /etc/init.d/ocspd restart