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Veritas Access Appliance Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2023-10-29

Product(s): Appliances (8.0)

Platform: Access Appliance OS,Veritas 3340,Veritas 3350

About the naming requirements for adding new users

The following table provides the naming requirements for adding new Access Appliance users.

Table: Naming requirements for adding new users

Guideline	Description
Starts with	Must begin with an alphabetic character and the rest of the string should be from the following character set: [a-zA-Z0-9_-] Can start with an underscore (_).
Length	Can be up to 31 characters. If user names are greater than 31 characters, you get the error, "Invalid user name".
Case	Access Appliance CLI commands are case-insensitive (for example, the user command is the same as the USER command). However, user-provided variables are case-sensitive (for example, the username Primary1 is not the same as the username PRIMARY1).
Can contain	Hyphens (-) and underscores (_) are allowed.

Note:

Each user account needs a password for authentication. The following special characters are not supported in the user password: ` (backtick), : (colon), ; (semicolon), " (double quote), ' (single quote), ( (opening parenthesis), ) (closing parenthesis), ? (question mark), * (asterisk), white space (blank), \ (back slash), / (forward slash).

When the STIG option is not enabled, the following password requirements must be met:

The password must contain at least eight characters.
The password must contain at least one lowercase character (a-z), uppercase character (A-Z), numeric character (0-9), and special character (!#$%&+,-.<=>@[]^_{|}~).
The password cannot be a Dictionary word.
The last seven passwords cannot be reused, and the new password cannot be similar to the previous passwords.

When the STIG option is enabled, the following password requirements must be met:

The password must be at least 15 characters long and must include at least one character from the following categories:
- Numbers
- Lowercase characters
- Uppercase characters
- Special characters (!#$%&+,-.<=>@[]^_{|}~)
The password can contain a maximum of two consecutive repeating characters.
The password can contain a maximum of four consecutive repeating characters from the same category.
The password must contain a minimum number of eight different characters.
The password must be retained for a minimum of one day before you change it.
The password must be changed after a maximum of 60 days.
The password cannot be a Dictionary word.
The last seven passwords cannot be reused.
The new password must have at least eight characters that are different from the old password.