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#### Breaking Changes {#breaking-changes-4.7.c}
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- Palette and VerteX [password policies](../tenant-settings/password-policy.md) are now capped to a maximum of 128
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characters. This change applies only to new passwords.
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sidebar_label: "Password Policy"
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title: "Password Policy"
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description: "Learn how to configure the password policy for your Palette tenant."
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icon: ""
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hide_table_of_contents: false
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sidebar_position: 50
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tags: ["tenant-administration", "security", "password"]
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---
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Tenant administrators can update the password policy for Palette users. The default password policy is as follows.
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- The password must be at least six characters long.
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- The password must be at most 64 characters long.
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- The password expires after 365 days.
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- The password must contain at least one uppercase letter.
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- The password must contain at least one lowercase letter.
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- The password must contain at least one digit.
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- The password must contain at least one special character.
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If you want to change the default password policy, follow the steps below.
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## Prerequisites
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- Palette tenant admin access.
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## Update Password Policy
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1. Log in to [Palette](https://console.spectrocloud.com) as a tenant admin.
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2. Navigate to the left main menu and select **Tenant Settings**.
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3. From the **Tenant Settings Menu**, select **Password Policy**.
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4. Set up the password policy using the configuration fields.
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| **Configuration** | **Description** |
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| ------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| **Enable Regex** | Enable if you want to specify the password policy using a regular expression. |
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| **Regex** | Specify a regular expression that the passwords must conform to. |
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| **Expiry Duration** | Set a password expiry time. Select from **3 months**, **6 months**, and **Custom**. |
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| **Expiry Duration (Days)** | If you have selected **Custom** expiry duration, specify a number of days for password expiry. |
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| **First Reminder (Days)** | Specify the number of days before the password expires to send the first reminder email to users. |
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| **Min Length** | Specify the minimum length of the password. The configured value must be between 6 and 128 and should not exceed the **Max Length**. |
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| **Max Length** | Specify the maximum length of the password. The configured value must be between 6 and 128 and should not be less than the **Min Length**. |
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| **Min Number Of Block Letters** | Specify the minimum number of uppercase letters in the password. The configured value must be larger than 1. |
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| **Min Number Of Digits** | Specify the minimum number of digits in the password. The configured value must be larger than 1. |
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| **Min Number Of Small Letters** | Specify the minimum number of lowercase letters in the password. The configured value must be larger than 1. |
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| **Min Number Of Special Characters** | Specify the minimum number of special characters in the password. The configured value must be larger than 1. |
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5. Click on **Save** to apply the changes.
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## Validate
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1. Log in to [Palette](https://console.spectrocloud.com) as a tenant admin.
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2. Navigate to your username and select **My Profile**.
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3. Enter a new password in the **New Password** field. You can test the password policy with different values. For
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example, you can enter an all lowercase password to ensure that the configured number of uppercase characters is
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enforced.

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