Password Strength
You can enable Password Strength service to enforce passwords rules on your DiskStation.
Note: Password restriction can only apply to new password. That is to say, it can only apply when creating a new user or when a user changes his password. Besides, the passwords of imported user accounts are excluded from the restriction.
To enable password strength service:
- Go to Main Menu > Control Panel > User.
- Click Password Strength.
- Check the Apply password strength rules checkbox to enable password restrictions.
- Select more than one password restrictions from the rules below:
- Exclude name and description of user from password: The password must not contain the user name or the user description. But UTF-8 encoded characters are excluded.
- Allow mixed case: Mixed case letters are allowed in password.
- Include numeric character: The password must contain at least one numeric character (0~9).
- Include special character: The password must contain at least one ASCII special character (i.e., ~, `, !, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), -, _, =, +, [, {, ], }, \, |, ;, :, ', ", <, >, /, ?).
- Minimal password length: The password must be at least the value specified in the text field. The length should be a number between 6 and 127.
- Click Apply to apply the setting.
To disable password strength service:
- Click Password Strength.
- Uncheck Apply password strength rules.
- Click Apply to apply the setting.