Advanced User Settings

To modify advanced user settings, you can go to Control Panel > User > Advanced. The options below are available.

Password Settings

You can set up the settings related to password security and strength rules for users on your DiskStation.

To allow users to reset forgotten passwords via email:

  1. Tick the Allow non-admin users to reset forgotten passwords via email checkbox.
  2. Click Apply to save settings.
  3. The link marked "Forgot your password?" will display on the DSM login page. Once the password is forgotten, the user can click this link and enter the username. In this case, the system will send this user an email containing a link to reset the forgotten password.

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To force users to change password upon password reset:

  1. Tick the Force users to change passwords after the administrator resets the password checkbox.
  2. Click Apply to save settings.
  3. When the administrator changes the password for a user, the user will be required to change his or her password upon next login.

To enable password strength rules:

  1. Tick the Apply password strength rules checkbox.
  2. Tick or untick the following options according to your needs:
  3. Click Apply to save settings.

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Password Expiration

You can enhance the security of user accounts with the password expiration function to force users to change password after the specified period of time.

To set up the password expiration schedule:

  1. Tick the Enable password expiration checkbox.
  2. The following options are configurable:
  3. Click Apply to save settings.

2-Step Verification

2-step verification provides improved security for DSM user accounts. You can force DSM administrators or all DSM users to enable their 2-step verification in order to further protect their accounts.

To enforce 2-step verification for DSM users:

  1. Tick the Enforce 2-step verification for the following users box, and select which users you want to apply this to.
  2. Click Apply to save settings.
  3. With this enforcement applied, users that have not enabled their 2-step verification will be asked to finish the settings before they can log in to DSM.

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User Home

Enable user homes to create a personal home folder for each user, except for guest. All users can access their own home folder via CIFS, AFP, FTP, or File Station.

Users belonging to the administrators group can access all personal folders located in the homes default shared folder. The name of home folder is the same as the user account.

To enable the user home service:

  1. Check Enable user home service.
  2. If there are multiple volumes, select where you want the homes folder to be stored.
  3. Click Apply.

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To disable the user home service:

  1. Uncheck Enable user home service.
  2. Click Apply to save settings.

After the user home service is disabled, the homes shared folder will be preserved for administrator access. Users will be able to access their home folders again when the user home service is enabled again.

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