Password-based authentication
Plain-text password-based authentication is stateless. After a password
is correctly set, access is granted for indefinite time periods.
Passwords may be up to 1024 characters in length. To enforce password
strength and existence requirements, set the server security level. See
Server security levels
for details. Plain-text password based authentication is supported only
at security levels 1, and
2.
If the security level is above 0 and your organization has only one user with the super access level
A permission assigned to a user to control which commands the user can run. See also the 'protections' entry in this glossary and the 'p4 protect' command in the Helix Core Command-Line (P4) Reference., make sure that this user has a valid password before setting the dm.user.setinitialpasswd configurable to 0. Otherwise that user will not be able to log in to the server.
The default minimum password length is eight characters. Minimum
password length is configurable by setting the
dm.password.minlength configurable. For example, to require
passwords to be at least 16 characters in length, a superuser can
run:
$ p4 configure set dm.password.minlength=16
To require users to change their passwords after a specified interval,
assign your users to at least one group and set the
PasswordTimeout: value for that group. For users in multiple
groups, the largest defined PasswordTimeout (including
unlimited, but ignoring unset) value
applies.
The p4 admin resetpassword command forces specified
users with existing passwords to change their passwords before they can
run another command. (This command works only for users whose
authMethod is set to perforce. However, you can
use it in a mixed environment, that is an environment in which both
Helix Server-based and
LDAP-based authentication are enabled.)
