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User security

Use this menu to set or change the passwords of power-on and administrator. There will be message boxes instructing you to finish the process.

Password rules:

  • The following characters are allowed: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, ~`!@#$%^&*()-+={}[]|:;"'<>,?/.\_

  • The password contains at least one letter/one number.

  • The password contains at least one of these combinations: one upper case letter and one lower case letter/one upper case letter and one special character/one lower case letter and one special character.

  • The password contains at least eight characters.

  • No more than two consecutive occurrences of the same character.

  • No white-space character is allowed.

Note
You can change the minimum number of characters with other values in User Security > Password Rule and Policy > Minimum password length.


Table 1. User security details

Item

Description

Password Rule and Policy 
Set Power-On Password
Follow the message boxes on the screen to complete password setting. Make sure your password meets the rules and policies.
Note
Message boxWhat it means
Passwords operation have unknown problem.
Press <Enter> to Continue
This message box appears when IPMI command has no response.
Clear Power-On Password

Follow the message boxes on the screen to complete password clearing.

Set Administrator Password
Follow the message boxes on the screen to complete password setting. Make sure your password meets the rules and policies.
Note
Message boxWhat it means
Passwords operation have unknown problem.
Press <Enter> to Continue

This message box appears when IPMI command has no response.

Clear Administrator Password

Follow the message boxes on the screen to complete password clearing.