Passwords Lockout - Dell PowerConnect 3524 Cli Reference Manual

User Guidelines
Relevant to local user passwords, line passwords, and enable passwords.
For tracking purposes, passwords are not deleted from the history database after becoming 'irrelevant'. A
period of time that the password cannot be changed (according to the history table) must be configured.
By increasing a password 's relevance for tracking purposes by a number of days, it may cause the
irrelevant password to be relevant again.
Example
The following example configures the number of days that a password is relevant for tracking its
password history to 120.
Console(config)# passwords history hold-time 120

passwords lockout

The passwords lockout Global Configuration mode command sets the number of failed login attempts
before a user account is locked. Use the no form of this command to remove this condition.
Syntax
• passwords lockout number
• no passwords lockout
• number — Number of failed login attempts before the user account is locked. (Range: 1 - 5)
Default Configuration
No locked user account due to failed login attempts.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode.
User Guidelines
• Relevant to local user passwords, line passwords, and enable passwords.
• The user account can still access the local console.
• A different administrator, with privilege level 15, can release a locked account by using the set
username active command.
Example
The following example configures the number of failed login attempts before a user account is locked to 3.
Console(config)# passwords lockout 3
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