System properties
This page details the vales and functions of the Cinchy System Properties table.
System Properties is a table within Cinchy for managing system properties, such as default time zones, system lockout durations, password expiration, password properties, password attempts allowed etc.
Setup
The Default of the Systems Properties table is set up as follows:
2
Default Time Zone
Eastern Standard Time
12
Password Attempts Allowed
3
13
System Lockout Duration (minutes)
15
8
Minimum Password Length
8
9
Password Requires Symbols
1
10
Password Requires Numbers
1
11
Password Expiration (Days)
90
15
Maintenance Enabled
0
This table is case sensitive.
Configure the table values
The System Properties requirements can be changed by an admin user by editing the 'Value' columns where applicable:
Default time zone
Users can set their own time zones in their user profile. The default time zone values are entered manually and must correspond with the one of the values in the Default Time Zone value list located below. For changes to take effect, you must either clear the application cache or restart the instance.
If you enter an incorrect value in the Value column, then it will default to Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Minimum password length
The minimum password length is 8 characters. The length will always default to 8 if an invalid value is provided, or if you attempt to set it to less than 8. This number can be changed (made higher than 8) in the Value column to require users to have longer passwords.
Password requires symbols
This property specifies whether symbols are required in a user's password. The 'Value' 0 means symbols aren't required and 1 means they're required.
Password requires numbers
This property specifies whether numbers are required in a user's password. The 'Value' 0 means numbers aren't required and 1 means they're required.
For a new password policy to take effect, you can set all user's Password Expiration Timestamp to yesterday. They will need to change their password the next time they attempt to log in.
Password expiration (days)
This property specifies how many days until a password expires. This defaults to 90 but can be set to be shorter or longer by changing the number in the 'Value' column.
Password attempts allowed
This property specifies how many bad password attempts a user can make before they're locked out of the system. The default is 3 but this can be set to be more or less attempts by changing the number in the 'Value' column.
System lockout duration (minutes)
This property specifies how long a user is locked out of the system once they've run out of bad password attempts. The default is 15 minutes but this can be set to be shorter or longer by changing the number in the 'Value' column.
Note that an administrator can also go into the 'Users' table to manually unlock a user by clearing the Locked Timestamp.
Maintenance enabled
This property, defaulted to 0, shows this warning when a data owner is setting up Data Erasure or Data Compression on a table (Image 2). It's the administrator's responsibility to set up a scheduled maintenance job for performing compression and erasure, and then to change the property to 1 so that the warning no longer appears.
Forbidden Passwords Table
You can also use a table called Forbidden Passwords to define passwords that won't be accepted by the platform. This table comes with a pre-populated list of passwords from https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/static-assets/documents/PwnedPasswordsTop100k.txt
You can add more blocked passwords to this list as well, and users won't be able to set their password to it (this can be used to add your company's name, or to import other blocked password lists). The check against the list is case insensitive.
Like other password policies, this check occurs when your password changes, so to enforce this you will need to set all passwords to be expired.
References
Default Time Zone value list
Dateline Standard Time
-12:00:00
UTC-11
-11:00:00
Aleutian Standard Time
-10:00:00
Hawaiian Standard Time
-10:00:00
Marquesas Standard Time
-09:30:00
Alaskan Standard Time
-09:00:00
UTC-09
-09:00:00
Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
-08:00:00
UTC-08
-08:00:00
Pacific Standard Time
-08:00:00
US Mountain Standard Time
-07:00:00
Mountain Standard Time (Mexico)
-07:00:00
Mountain Standard Time
-07:00:00
Yukon Standard Time
-07:00:00
Central America Standard Time
-06:00:00
Central Standard Time
-06:00:00
Easter Island Standard Time
-06:00:00
Central Standard Time (Mexico)
-06:00:00
Canada Central Standard Time
-06:00:00
SA Pacific Standard Time
-05:00:00
Eastern Standard Time (Mexico)
-05:00:00
Eastern Standard Time
-05:00:00
Haiti Standard Time
-05:00:00
Cuba Standard Time
-05:00:00
US Eastern Standard Time
-05:00:00
Turks and Caicos Standard Time
-05:00:00
Paraguay Standard Time
-04:00:00
Atlantic Standard Time
-04:00:00
Venezuela Standard Time
-04:00:00
Central Brazilian Standard Time
-04:00:00
SA Western Standard Time
-04:00:00
Pacific SA Standard Time
-04:00:00
Newfoundland Standard Time
-03:30:00
Tocantins Standard Time
-03:00:00
E. South America Standard Time
-03:00:00
SA Eastern Standard Time
-03:00:00
Argentina Standard Time
-03:00:00
Montevideo Standard Time
-03:00:00
Magallanes Standard Time
-03:00:00
Saint Pierre Standard Time
-03:00:00
Bahia Standard Time
-03:00:00
UTC-02
-02:00:00
Greenland Standard Time
-02:00:00
Mid-Atlantic Standard Time
-02:00:00
Azores Standard Time
-01:00:00
Cabo Verde Standard Time
-01:00:00
Coordinated Universal Time
00:00:00
GMT Standard Time
00:00:00
Greenwich Standard Time
00:00:00
Sao Tome Standard Time
00:00:00
Morocco Standard Time
00:00:00
W. Europe Standard Time
01:00:00
Central Europe Standard Time
01:00:00
Romance Standard Time
01:00:00
Central European Standard Time
01:00:00
W. Central Africa Standard Time
01:00:00
GTB Standard Time
02:00:00
Middle East Standard Time
02:00:00
Egypt Standard Time
02:00:00
E. Europe Standard Time
02:00:00
Syria Standard Time
02:00:00
West Bank Gaza Standard Time
02:00:00
South Africa Standard Time
02:00:00
FLE Standard Time
02:00:00
Jerusalem Standard Time
02:00:00
South Sudan Standard Time
02:00:00
Russia TZ 1 Standard Time
02:00:00
Sudan Standard Time
02:00:00
Libya Standard Time
02:00:00
Namibia Standard Time
02:00:00
Jordan Standard Time
03:00:00
Arabic Standard Time
03:00:00
Turkey Standard Time
03:00:00
Arab Standard Time
03:00:00
Belarus Standard Time
03:00:00
Russia TZ 2 Standard Time
03:00:00
E. Africa Standard Time
03:00:00
Volgograd Standard Time
03:00:00
Iran Standard Time
03:30:00
Arabian Standard Time
04:00:00
Astrakhan Standard Time
04:00:00
Azerbaijan Standard Time
04:00:00
Russia TZ 3 Standard Time
04:00:00
Mauritius Standard Time
04:00:00
Saratov Standard Time
04:00:00
Georgian Standard Time
04:00:00
Caucasus Standard Time
04:00:00
Afghanistan Standard Time
04:30:00
West Asia Standard Time
05:00:00
Russia TZ 4 Standard Time
05:00:00
Pakistan Standard Time
05:00:00
Qyzylorda Standard Time
05:00:00
India Standard Time
05:30:00
Sri Lanka Standard Time
05:30:00
Nepal Standard Time
05:45:00
Central Asia Standard Time
06:00:00
Bangladesh Standard Time
06:00:00
Omsk Standard Time
06:00:00
Myanmar Standard Time
06:30:00
SE Asia Standard Time
07:00:00
Altai Standard Time
07:00:00
W. Mongolia Standard Time
07:00:00
Russia TZ 6 Standard Time
07:00:00
Novosibirsk Standard Time
07:00:00
Tomsk Standard Time
07:00:00
China Standard Time
08:00:00
Russia TZ 7 Standard Time
08:00:00
Malay Peninsula Standard Time
08:00:00
W. Australia Standard Time
08:00:00
Taipei Standard Time
08:00:00
Ulaanbaatar Standard Time
08:00:00
Aus Central W. Standard Time
08:45:00
Transbaikal Standard Time
09:00:00
Tokyo Standard Time
09:00:00
North Korea Standard Time
09:00:00
Korea Standard Time
09:00:00
Russia TZ 8 Standard Time
09:00:00
Cen. Australia Standard Time
09:30:00
AUS Central Standard Time
09:30:00
E. Australia Standard Time
10:00:00
AUS Eastern Standard Time
10:00:00
West Pacific Standard Time
10:00:00
Tasmania Standard Time
10:00:00
Russia TZ 9 Standard Time
10:00:00
Lord Howe Standard Time
10:30:00
Bougainville Standard Time
11:00:00
Russia TZ 10 Standard Time
11:00:00
Magadan Standard Time
11:00:00
Norfolk Standard Time
11:00:00
Sakhalin Standard Time
11:00:00
Central Pacific Standard Time
11:00:00
Russia TZ 11 Standard Time
12:00:00
New Zealand Standard Time
12:00:00
UTC+12
12:00:00
Fiji Standard Time
12:00:00
Kamchatka Standard Time
12:00:00
Chatham Islands Standard Time
12:45:00
UTC+13
13:00:00
Tonga Standard Time
13:00:00
Samoa Standard Time
13:00:00
Line Islands Standard Time
14:00:00
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