If you have Administrator level privileges, you can modify the
user name, password, and group for a user account. If you do not have Administrator
level privileges, you can only enter a new password for your own user ID.
You can also modify a user account with the chuser DS
Command-Line Interface command. See DS CLI documentation for more information.
The password and its use must meet the following criteria:
- Be six to 16 characters long.
- Must contain five or more letters, and it must begin and end with a letter.
- Must contain one or more numbers.
- Cannot contain the user's user ID.
- Is case-sensitive.
- Four unique new passwords must be issued before an old password can be
reused.
- Under Monitor system, select User
administration. In User administration — Main page, select Modify in
the Select Action drop-down box. Then
click Go. The Modify user page is displayed.
- To modify the user name, enter up to 16 characters. If you do not
have Administrator level privileges, your user name appears in the User
name box by default and you are not able to modify it.
- Specify the user account password. Passwords must contain at least
5 alphabetic characters, and at least one numeric character, with an alphabetic
character in the first and last positions. Passwords are limited to a total
of 16 characters. The user name can not be part of the password. The minimum
number of unique new passwords that must be used before an old password can
be reused is four. This entry will appear as asterisks.
- Retype the password in the Confirm password box.
This entry must match the password entry above. Characters in this field appear
as asterisks.
- Assign a group role to the user account by selecting the appropriate
group in the Group assignment box.
- Click Ok. The properties for the user account
are immediately modified.