You can require that all meeting rooms in IBM® Sametime® have
passwords.
About this task
Meeting rooms are not required to have passwords by default.
You can change this configuration setting so that meeting rooms are
required to have passwords.
Procedure
- Log in to the Integrated Solutions Console.
- Click .
- In the Meeting Servers list, click
a server with the configuration that you want to change.
- Click the Server Configuration tab.
- Click Edit.
- Locate the meetingroomcenter.passwords configuration
key.
You can only edit the value; you cannot edit a configuration
key name.
-
Change the Configuration Value to one of the values specified in Table
1.
Table 1. Configuration values
Value |
Description |
0 |
No password required. This is the default value. |
1 |
Password required. The password must contain at least five characters. |
2 |
Strong password required. A strong password must contain eight or more characters, mixed
uppercase and lowercase letters, at least one number, and at least one special character (for
example: comma, exclamation point, or asterisk). |
Password character restrictions
In addition to non-English characters, the following characters must not be included in passwords
used by Sametime:
: \ } ’ " & < >
- Click OK.
Results
This configuration change immediately takes effect.
What to do next
You optionally customize the configuration to allow meeting room owners and managers to bypass
the password requirement. For information, see Customizing the Sametime Meeting Server configuration.