Selection of Passwords

Specify a strong password for the Hawk Console administrator accounts, considering that administrators perform all the critical operations. Weak administrator account passwords can result in security breach, resulting in severe damage and destabilization of the enterprise. The password must ideally consist of a minimum of eight characters, with a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, and special characters. In the case of file-based authentication for Hawk Console, use the tibhawkpassword utility to obfuscate the passwords. You can use LDAP-based authentication for Hawk Console. In the LDAP-based authentication, the usernames and passwords are validated with a LDAP directory server.