3SL wishes to give advance notice of two changes that will occur to user passwords in the next Cradle release, version Cradle-6.2. One of these changes will be an option for project administrators and, potentially, for your IT and/or Security departments, but the other change will affect all Cradle users.

Specifically:

• You will be able to specify new format controls for Cradle user passwords
• All Cradle passwords will become case-sensitive

Neither of these changes will affect you if your Cradle system uses LDAP usernames and passwords to authenticate users and if you log-in to your Cradle projects using LDAP (or Microsoft’s Active Directory).

But since every project has at least one Cradle-specific user profile, for the MANAGER user, the case sensitivity change will affect all Cradle projects, because you will now have to be case sensitive when you enter your password to login to the MANAGER user profile.

New Password Controls

Within the User Settings controls in Project Setup, four new controls have been added:

• Password must contain >= 1 uppercase character, which is a character in the range A…Z
• Password must contain >= 1 lowercase character, which is a character in the range a…z
• Password must contain >= 1 numeral, which is a character in the range 0…9
• Password must contain >= 1 special character, which is any of the non-alphanumeric, printable characters in 7-bit ASCII, specifically the characters: ¬ ` ! “ $ % ^ & * 9 0 _ + - = { } [ ] : @ ~ ; ‘ # < > ? , . / | \

None of these options will be set for the DEMO demonstration project supplied by 3SL.

None of these options will be set for any of your existing projects when you migrate to Cradle-6.2.

None of these options will be set by default for any project that you create in Cradle-6.2 using any of the 3SL-supplied default schema.

It is increasingly common for organisations to require uppercase and lowercase letters, digits and special characters in their passwords. For such organisations, 3SL recommends that all of the new options should be set.

Case Sensitive Passwords

Cradle passwords are currently case-insensitive. That is, if a password is:

PASSWORD

(this is an exceptionally bad choice for a password!) then the user can enter the password in a case-insensitive manner, which means that any of the following inputs will be valid:

PASSWORD
Password
password
paSSworD

Starting at Cradle-6.2, all passwords will be case sensitive. In the above example, the password can only be entered as:

PASSWORD

This will affect ALL projects, both the DEMO demonstration database supplied by 3SL all of your existing projects and ALL projects that create with any version of Cradle starting at Cradle-6.2.

The immediate effects will be:

1. The default password for the MANAGER account in all new projects must be entered in uppercase: MANAGER
2. The passwords for all of your existing user profiles in all of your existing project MUST be entered in uppercase
3. The passwords for the user profiles in the DEMO demonstration project supplied by 3SL must be entered in uppercase as follows:

Username:	ADMIN	Password:	ADMIN
Username:	CUSTOMER	Password:	CUSTOMER
Username:	DEVMAN	Password:	DEVMAN
Username:	REQMAN	Password:	REQMAN
Username:	TESTMAN	Password:	TESTMAN
Username:	MANAGER	Password:	MANAGER

which is how they have always been specified in the Cradle on-line help and documentation.

3SL hopes that this change will be beneficial to end users. We apologise for any inconvenience that it may cause whilst users become accustomed to entering passwords in uppercase, or users change their passwords to be lowercase through Cradle’s User Setup tool.

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