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Changing the password for a user account

You may need to change the password for your own account or for other user account if the current password is about to expire or you want to change it to a more secure one.

The password must comply with the following rules:

  • The password must be 8 to 256 characters long.
  • The password must contain characters from at least three of the groups listed below:
    • Uppercase letters (A-Z)
    • Lowercase letters (a-z)
    • Numbers (0-9)
    • Special characters (@ # $ % ^ & * - _ ! + = [ ] { } | : ' , . ? / \ ` ~ " ( ) ;)
  • The password must not contain any whitespaces, Unicode characters, or the combination of "." and "@", when "." is placed before "@".

Changing the password for your own account

To edit the password for your account:

  1. In the main menu, go to your account settings, and then select Change password.
  2. Enter the current password, and then specify the new password for the connection to Open Single Management Platform.

    To see the entered password, click View the password..

  3. If your account is protected against unauthorized modification, you must confirm that you have the permissions to change this account. In the Account protection window, specify the credentials of your own account or the account that has the Modify object ACLs right in the General features: User permissions functional area.
  4. If two-step verification is enabled for the account that you used in the previous step, enter the security code generated by the authenticator app on the mobile device.

Changing the password for an internal user account

To edit the password for an internal user account:

  1. In the main menu, go to Users & roles → Users & groups, and then select the Users tab.
  2. Click the name of the user account that you want to edit.
  3. In the user settings window that opens, on the General tab, click the Change password button.
  4. Set a new password for the user connection to Open Single Management Platform.

    To see the entered password, click View the password..

  5. If the user account is protected against unauthorized modification, you must confirm that you have the permissions to change this account. In the Account protection window, specify the credentials of the account that has the Modify object ACLs right in the General features: User permissions functional area.