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While you can manually add the technicians' passwords in MobileTech Admin (see Add a MobileTech User) or in Resco's Admin Console (see Set Technician Passwords with Admin Console (optional)), you can use the Update Password Policy window to set up the complexity, password expiration, as well as the lockout mode. In MobileTech Admin, select Tools > Update Password Policy. The password complexity that you set up will go into effect when the MobileTech user changes their password. When MobileTech Administrators update their password, the password complexity is enforced. The password expiration applies only to MobileTech Users, not to MobileTech Administrators. 

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A password complexity policy is designed to deter brute force attacks by increasing the number of possible passwords . To protect your organization from brute force password hacking, enforce by enforcing the use of strong passwords such as requiring digits, upper case letters, special characters, and password length. When the passwords expire, a prompt is displayed when the technician attempts to sync or sign in to their device and they can update the password at that time. 

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