IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue - Organisation Remarks
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- Days Between Password Changes: Under this menu the general duration
of password validity is determined. Length of password validity must be
determined for each system.
Note: If the duration of password validity is set for more than 60 days,
this will be "noted" by the Novell Utility
SYS:SYSTEM\SECURITY.EXE.
- Limit Grace Logins: Grace Logins are logins occurring once the
duration of password validity has expired. In principal, the number of
Grace Logins should be limited by selecting "Yes".
- Grace Logins Allowed: The number of permissible grace logins should
be set to a value of 1, so that when a password expires, it needs to be
changed immediately by the user.
- Require Unique Passwords: Activation of password history (REQUIRE
UNIQUE PASSWORDS) results in the last nine passwords of an account
being compared with the new password. If any of the passwords match, the
new one will be rejected by the Novell Netware server.
- Account Balance: Novell Netware accounting function
- Allow Unlimited Credit: Novell Netware accounting function
- Low Balance Limit: Novell Netware accounting function
To be added to the illustration: Menu SYS:PUBLIC\SYSCON.EXE
"Default Account Balance/Restrictions"
Default time restrictions
With the help of Time Restrictions, the allowed working hours on a Novell
Netware server can be defined. Outside these times, which generally
correspond to normal working hours, no user will be permitted to login to the
Novell Netware server.
Note: For guest and supervisor accounts installed as standard, the Netware
default setting will be used (no time limit). As far as access times are
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000