Password policies for Resiliency Platform virtual appliance
To access Resiliency Platform virtual appliances, you need to set a password for the admin user. Following is the list of rules to set the password:
Must be at least 8 characters long.
Must contain at least one uppercase letter (A-Z), one lowercase letter (a-z), one numeric (0-9), and one special character such as @&%.
Note:
Though special characters are allowed in a password, you cannot use a space, dollar sign ($) or double quotes (") in a password. However, this is applicable only in case of Resiliency Platform Data Mover.
Cannot contain the user name or its characters in reversed order.
Cannot contain same character used consecutively for more than 2 times.
Cannot contain 5 or more characters from the previous password.
Cannot be the same as your previous 6 passwords.
Can be changed after a minimum of 15 days since the last password change. The password can be changed only through klish menu.
Expires in 90 days. you get an error message when you are not able to login using admin user credentials.
7 days before the password expiry date, a warning is provided to change the password. This warning is not displayed in the Resiliency Manager console. You get to see this warning only when you log in to the virtual appliance console or in the SSH session using the admin user credentials.
Maximum 10 authentication attempts are allowed within a duration of 15 minutes. After this limit, the user ID and password gets blocked for next 60 minutes.
In case you forget the admin password, you need to contact Veritas support. Veritas support can reset the admin password only if the virtualization technology or cloud environment supports the serial console.