A resource can be assigned a password policy. If an attribute has an assigned password policy, the value of this attribute will contain information about it.
The following table defines the attributes in the accountInfo.accounts[resname].passwordPolicy.
Table 3–12 accountInfo.accounts[resname].passwordPolicy Attributes (User VIew)
Attribute |
Description |
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name |
The name of policy. This corresponds to the name of a policy object in the Waveset repository. |
summary |
A brief text description of the policy including information about each of the policy attributes. |
attributes |
The value of this attribute is another object that contains the names and values of each policy attribute. |
Applications that display policy information typically display the summary text, but if you need more fine-grained control over the display of each policy attribute, you can use the attributes map.
Forms that provide an interface for changing and synchronizing passwords often use this information.