topic Re: ACS password complexity in Network Access Control

ACS password complexity

cesarpuga — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:47:00 GMT

Hello All,

I have installed a Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) with the version 4.2 and i'm using a local database to authenticate users to manage some devices that work as RADIUS clients of ACS and by safety requirements, i need to add some parameters of complexity to the passwords.

I was looking at the global level, I can change options such as, the password must contain alphanumeric characters and need to know if these settings will apply immediately on the users of the local database and if any of them do not meet this requirement the account be disabled or inaccessible or keep operating normally until the user can change???.

A second question on the ACS is: set the password expiration (aging) for users of a local database is possible, should work???

Thanks

Regards,

Re: ACS password complexity

andamani — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:54:20 GMT

Hi,

to answer the password complexity issue may be you can try local password management.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_windows/4.2/user/guide/SCBasic.html#wp222215

Password Aging can be enabled for internal and external database both:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_windows/4.2/user/guide/GrpMgt.html#wp525115

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Anisha

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Re: ACS password complexity

Jatin Katyal — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:21:49 GMT

It won't affect the existing users, it will only be applicable for new users created after defining the password-policy.

Rgds, Jatin

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