| ## Overview - Maintaining Policies and Properties Registry polices are attributes that can be set registry wide. To provide a finer lever of control, policies can also be set for individual organizations and accounts. An organization's or account's policies can override the registry default policies if the organization's or account's policies are more restrictive. Registry properties are attributes that apply to the principals, groups, and organizations created in the registry. They cannot be set for individual organizations or accounts. Properties regulate such things as the range of numbers that can be used for UNIX IDs and whether encrypted passwords are displayed. You can set both polices and properties with the dcecp registry modify command. In addition, you can set policies for an individual organization or account with the dcecp organization modify and dcecp account modify commands. In all commands, policies and properties to be set are supplied as attributes in standard dcecp attribute lists with the -change option or as attribute options. This topic first describes policies and then properties. ##