Password Expiration

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Hi everyone,

Apologies for this newbie question, but I couldn’t find anything in the documentation.

I’m using a technical user to access the REST API of Cumulocity for integration purposes and at the same time I have set the password expiration for my UI users to 100 days.
My question is, how can I exclude my technical user from that rule, while keeping the UI users changing their passwords every 100 days.

Thanks for your help
Tom

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Hi Tom,

sorry for the late reply. The setting after how many days the password expires is a tenant setting. So it is not possible to have different settings for different users even if one is a technical user and the user a UI user.

best regards
Michael

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Thanks Michael,

Is there a recommended best-practice approach for such scenario?

How would you implement authentication for a technical user to access the REST API?

As you can imagine, I don’t really want to track manually how many days this user is using the same password.

Thanks for your help
Tom

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Hi Michael,

This topic is unfortunately still not being fully answered.

Is there a slight chance that the password expiration of for example 100 days resets with every login?

I’m pretty sure I only get asked to change my password when I log on to instance I hardly use.

Could that be?

Thanks
Tom

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Michael or anyone else from Software AG?

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As Michael said, The setting after how many days the password expires is a tenant setting.
If you do not want to force your users to change passwords, use “0” for unlimited validity of passwords (default value).

https://cumulocity.com/guides/users-guide/administration/#authentication

hope, it may help.

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