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User Password Policy

This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows the SysOp to configure rules for users creating passwords on a Mystic BBS.

This example screen is from a Windows based system and displays the standard 'out of the box' settings that ship with the default installation.

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              █  Minimum Length            │ 7                     █
              █  Minimum Capital Letters   │ 0                     █
              █  Minimum Numbers           │ 0                     █
              █  Minimum Symbols           │ 0                     █
              █  Maximum Password Attempts │ 3                     █
              █  Force Password Change     │ 0                     █
              █  Allow Password Inquiry    │ Yes                   █
              █  Allow Reset By E-mail     │ Yes                   █
              █  Password Storage Method   │ PBKDF2 SHA512 Hash    █
              █  PBKDF2 512-bit Iterations │ 1000                  █
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Minimum Length

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Minimum Capital Letters

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Minimum Numbers

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Minimum Symbols

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Maximum Password Attempts

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Force Password Change

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Allow Password Inquiry

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Allow Reset By E-mail

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Password Storage Method

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PBKDF2 512-bit Iterations

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