About Password Protection

Your OUTSCALE account is secured by a password that you can change at any time.

To make sure your password is secure enough, OUTSCALE enforces a password policy.

Password Policy

It is recommended to change your password regularly and to never reuse the same password for different services.

Your password must meet the following requirements:

At least 17 characters.
At least one lowercase letter.
At least one uppercase letter.
At least one digit.
At least one special character (!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`\{|}~).
A former password cannot be reused when creating a new password.

In addition, your password is gauged based on its strength. In other words, on how long it would take for a brute-force program to guess it. The following patterns may lower the password strength and should be avoided:

Most common passwords
Dictionaries of most frequent English terms
Common names and surnames
Sequences ("abcd", "123") and repetitions ("aaaa", "111")
Keyboard patterns ("qwertyuiop")
Date formats
Leet speak ("p455w02d")

The password you define is rejected if it is deemed too weak.

For the cloudgouv-eu-west-1 Region, your password must be updated at least once a year.

If you fail to authenticate four times in a row, further authentication attempts will be prevented for 1 minute. This locked time increases 1 minute every four consecutive failed attempts, for up to 10 minutes.

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