Ability to use the Password Policy Form through Netscape Console.
Try This: Change the password policy form so that all passwords expire in 90 days.
See Managing the Password Policy in the Admin Guide.
| # Password Policy Form The password policy you configure applies to all users within the directory except for the Directory Manager. ### How To Use Netscape Console To Enforce Password Policies 1. Use Netscape Console to reach the Directory Server administration window. Select the Configuration tab and then click on the Database icon (the little green barrel). 2. Select the Passwords tab in the right pane. This tab contains the password policy for the Directory Server. 3. You can specify that users must change their password the first time they log on by selecting the Must change after reset checkbox. 4. To specify that users can change their own passwords, select the May change password checkbox. 5. If you do not want user passwords to expire, select the Password never Expires radio button. 6. If you want users to have to change their passwords periodically, select the Password Expires After X Days radio button and then enter the number of days that a user password is valid. 7. If you have turned password expiration on, you need to specify how long before the password expires to send a warning to the user by entering the number of days in the Send Warning X Days Before Password Expires text box. 8. If you want the server to check the syntax of a user password to make sure it meets the minimum requirements set by the password policy, select the Check Password Syntax checkbox. 9. If you turn password syntax checking on, you need to specify the minimum acceptable length in the Password Minimum Length text box. 10. If you want, you can specify that users cannot change their password for a specific amount of time by entering the number of days in the Allow Changes in X Days text box. 11. To configure the server to maintain a history list of passwords used by each user, select the Keep Password History checkbox. 12. If you configure the server to keep password histories, specify the number of passwords you want the server to keep for each user in the Remember X Passwords text box. 13. Specify what encryption method you want the server to use when storing passwords from the Storage Scheme pull-down menu. 14. When you have finished making changes to the password policy, click Save.

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