SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

2957793 - Changes to password and login policy settings in BizX

Symptom

Starting August 14th, there will be changes on the password policy settings to improve security for both Employee Central and Non-Employee Central enabled instances.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite

Resolution

To better protect your account security, we now provide a set of best practices of password policy settings.

As an admin user, you can check the new password policy settings through Admin Center  Company Settings  Password & Login Policy Settings. We recommend that you adopt the following password policy settings.

Pre-requisite: Grant  "Manage System Properties  > Password & Login Policy Settings " permission for the admin user.

  • Enter at least 6 in the Minimum Length and the Maximum Length fields.
  • The password must contain at least two kinds of the following characters: numeric character, special character, upper case characters, or lower case characters.
  • Enter a number larger than 0 in the Maximum Successive Failed Login Attempts field.
  • Enter at least 2 in the Enable password history policy field.
  • Enter a number between 1–365 in the Maximum Password Age (in days) field.


You can refer to this section of the admin guide on how to configure Password & Login Policy settings for BizX users.

Who will be impacted by this change?

Keywords

KBA , LOD-SF-PLT-PWD , Password Policy Settings & Reset Password , LOD-SF-PLT-UIM , Employee Import Issues , How To

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite 2005