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- Overview
- Password management policy in the HFSQL Control Center
- Enabling a password management policy
- Setting user passwords
- Server dashboard: "Security audit" widget
- Implementing a password management policy programmatically
Password management policy
To manipulate data in an HFSQL Client/Server database, users need to authenticate using login credentials. You can now implement a password security policy to define how long and how complex passwords should be, and how often they should be renewed (e.g. passwords must be changed every month). This policy can be defined and modified: Password management policy in the HFSQL Control Center The HFSQL Control Center allows you to: Enabling a password management policy To enable the various password management policy options: - Open the HFSQL Control Center.
- Connect (if necessary) to an HFSQL server. For more details, see Managing HFSQL Client/Server databases.
- Double-click the name of HFSQL server in the tree structure.
- In the ribbon, click "Server configuration".
- In the configuration window, click "Password security". The window that appears shows the available options to implement a password security policy.
Setting user passwords When creating or editing a user in the HFSQL Control Center, you can set or change the user's password. If the password management policy has been activated, password size and complexity criteria are automatically applied when a user is created. Server dashboard: "Security audit" widget In the HFSQL Control Center dashboard, the "Security audit" widget shows whether one or more users have expired passwords to connect to the server. Implementing a password management policy programmatically To implement the password management policy in WLanguage: - Create a variable of type hSecurityPolicy. Define the values of the associated properties.
- Enforce the password management policy with HSecurityPolicySet.
Several functions are available to manage the password management policy:
| | | Checks that each user accounts complies with the password security policy associated with the HFSQL server. | | Gets the security policy of an HFSQL server. | | Sets the password security policy of an HFSQL server. | | Unlocks a user account that has been locked due too many unsuccessful login attempts. |
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- Version 2025 (Subscription)
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