SetPasswordPolicy - Resource Access Management - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Configures the password policy for RAM users, including the password strength.

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ram:SetPasswordPolicy	update	All Resources *	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
MinimumPasswordLength	integer	No	The minimum required number of characters in a password. Valid values: 8 to 32. Default value: 8.	12
RequireLowercaseCharacters	boolean	No	Specifies whether a password must contain one or more lowercase letters.	true
RequireUppercaseCharacters	boolean	No	Specifies whether a password must contain one or more uppercase letters.	true
RequireNumbers	boolean	No	Specifies whether a password must contain one or more digits.	true
RequireSymbols	boolean	No	Specifies whether a password must contain one or more special characters.	true
HardExpiry	boolean	No	Specifies whether a password will expire. Valid values: `true` and `false`. Default value: `false`. If you leave this parameter unspecified, the default value false is used. If you set this parameter to `true`, the Alibaba Cloud account to which the RAM users belong must reset the passwords before the RAM users can log on to the Alibaba Cloud Management Console. If you set this parameter to `false`, the RAM users can change the passwords after the passwords expire and then log on to the Alibaba Cloud Management Console.	false
MaxPasswordAge	integer	No	The number of days for which a password is valid. Default value: 0. The default value indicates that the password never expires.	0
PasswordReusePrevention	integer	No	The number of previous passwords that a RAM user is prevented from reusing. Default value: 0. The default value indicates that the RAM user can reuse previous passwords.	0
MaxLoginAttemps	integer	No	The maximum number of permitted logon attempts within one hour. The number of logon attempts is reset to zero if a RAM user changes the password.	5

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368
PasswordPolicy	object	The password policy.
RequireNumbers	boolean	Indicates whether a password must contain one or more digits.	true
RequireLowercaseCharacters	boolean	Indicates whether a password must contain one or more lowercase letters.	true
HardExpiry	boolean	Indicates whether a password expires. Valid values: `true` and `false`. Default value: `false`. If the parameter is unspecified, the default value false is returned. If this parameter is set to `true`, the Alibaba Cloud account to which the RAM users belong must reset the password before the RAM users can log on to the Alibaba Cloud Management Console. If this parameter is set to `false`, the RAM users can change the passwords after the passwords expire and then log on to the Alibaba Cloud Management Console.	false
PasswordReusePrevention	integer	The number of previous passwords that a RAM user is prevented from reusing. Default value: 0. The default value indicates that the RAM user can reuse previous passwords.	0
RequireSymbols	boolean	Indicates whether a password must contain one or more special characters.	true
MaxPasswordAge	integer	The number of days for which a password is valid. Default value: 0. The default value indicates that the password never expires.	0
MinimumPasswordLength	integer	The minimum required number of characters in a password.	12
RequireUppercaseCharacters	boolean	Indicates whether a password must contain one or more uppercase letters.	true
MaxLoginAttemps	integer	The maximum number of permitted logon attempts within one hour. The number of logon attempts is reset to zero if a RAM user changes the password.	5

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "04F0F334-1335-436C-A1D7-6C044FE73368",
  "PasswordPolicy": {
    "RequireNumbers": true,
    "RequireLowercaseCharacters": true,
    "HardExpiry": false,
    "PasswordReusePrevention": 0,
    "RequireSymbols": true,
    "MaxPasswordAge": 0,
    "MinimumPasswordLength": 12,
    "RequireUppercaseCharacters": true,
    "MaxLoginAttemps": 5
  }
}

Error codes

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