Prinect User Accounts — Password Policies
In connection with new installations of Prinect software specific user accounts, which require safe passwords, are set up.
•Prinect Windows User Account
The passwords for these user accounts must comply to specific safety policies which are explained below.
Important: Please note that these changes have only effect on new Prinect software installations. For updating existing installations, the changed security policies do not absolutely require to change existing passwords, but we strictly recommend to check existing passwords against this security policy and, if necessary, to change the passwords. The passwords must be changed manually.
As part of the installation of the Prinect software (e.g. Prinect Production Manager), a specific Prinect Windows user account, which has extensive access rights within a Prinect system environment, is set up.
Note: The user name of the Prinect Windows user account is stored in the HD_PRINECT_USER Windows environment variable.
For the Prinect Windows user account, the following conditions apply:
•The Prinect Windows user account is set up by the Prinect software installers in a way, that interactive login to the operating system is not possible with this user account.
•Among other things the user name "Administrator" is not allowed for the Prinect Windows user account.
•If an already existing Windows user account is used for the Prinect user account, the Prinect installers check the complexity of the existing password during an update process. If the password security policy is violated, a warning message and an instruction are displayed.
•The Prinect Windows user account is set up in a way that it cannot be used as a Windows Remote Desktop user.
•The password of the Prinect Windows user account should only be known to authorized employees of the printing house. This password is required in the Prinect Maintenance Center for software updates.
•The previous support user account with the "HDService" user name is no more set up by the Prinect software installers by default. Instead, the authorized employees of the printing house must set up this user account manually.
•It is not mandatory to delete a possibly existing "HDService" user account, but it should definitely be noted that the associated password is defined exclusively by the authorized employees of the printing house. The Heidelberg supporters are supposed to prompt the authorized employees of the printing house to define a new password which is only known to the authorized employees.
If Prinect software is installed for the first time, the password policy described below is checked by all Prinect installers while the password is entered. This policy is based on the "Windows strict password policy".
1.The minimal password length is 8 characters.
2.Only the following characters may be used for the password:
•Capital letters — A-Z — (only characters contained in the English ANSI character set, e.g. no umlauts, no Asian, no Greek and no Cyrillic characters).
•Lowercase letters — a-z — (only characters contained in the English ANSI character set, e.g. no umlauts, no Asian, no Greek and no Cyrillic characters).
•Digits — 0 - 9.
•The following special characters:
@ | # | $ | * | - | _ | + | ? | [ | ] | { | } | : | . | / | ~ | ( | ) |
3.The Prinect password must contain characters from at least 3 of these character groups.
4.Unicode characters (UTF-8) may not be used.
5.The Prinect user name may not be contained in the password!
If the Prinect user name is longer than 3 characters, the user name is case-insensitive checked for compliance with this policy.
When the Prinect user account is set up, the password is checked for compliance with the policy while the password is entered. If the password is not compliant, a note is displayed. The user account is only then created successfully, if the password policy is met.
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