Creating and Managing Password Policies

You can create password policies to use within a secret. These password policies are then applied to secret templates defined for different resources. There are two predefined password policies:
• Strong Password Policy: Password must consist of eight characters and should include numbers, uppercase, lowercase, and special characters.
• Moderate Password Policy: Password must consist of eight characters and should include uppercase and lowercase characters.

Adding a password policy

1. Login to Britive.
2. Click on Admin->Secrets Manager->Password Policies. A list of all password policies is displayed. You can Manage, Clone, or Delete a particular password policy.
3. Click Add Password Policy button to create a new password policy.
4. Enter the following on Add Password Policy page:
   a. Enter the Password Policy Name.
   b. Enter Description (Optional).
   c. Select the Password Type. You can choose from either Alphanumeric Password or PIN (Only Numbers).
   d. Select whether a password must include uppercase characters (A-Z).
   e. Select whether a password must include lowercase characters (a-z).
   f. Select whether a password must include numbers (0-9).
   g. Select whether a password must include any special characters. If you select Yes, enter the list of allowed special characters in the Allowed Special Characters field.
   h. Click Save.

Managing password policies

You can manage each password policy by editing/cloning/deleting it.

1. Login to Britive.
2. Click on Admin->Secrets Manager->Password Policies.
3. Select the password policy and select any of the following actions:
   a. Manage password policy: You can Edit, Clone, or Reset a password policy.
   b. Clone password policy: You can clone an existing password policy and refine the required fields as per your requirement.
   c. Delete password policy: You can delete a password policy.