How to Modify a Policy

An example of the corresponding command-line equivalent follows this procedure.

1. If neccessary, start the SEAM Tool.

   See "How to Start the SEAM Tool" for details.

2. Click the Policies tab.

3. Select the policy in the list that you want to modify and click Modify.

   The Policy Details panel is displayed.

4. Modify the policy's attributes.

   Choose Context-Sensitive Help from the Help menu to get information about the various attributes in each window. Or, go to Table 5-7 for all the policy attribute descriptions.

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   Note -

   You cannot modify a policy's name. To rename a policy, you must duplicate the policy, specify a new name for it, save it, and then delete the old policy.

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5. Click Save to save the policy, or click Done.

Example--Modifying a Policy (Command Line)

The following example uses the modify_policy command of kadmin to modify the minimum length of a password to five characters for the build11 policy.

$ kadmin
kadmin: modify_policy -minlength 5 build11
kadmin: quit