Password-Control Login-Attempt - 3Com 5500-EI PWR Reference Manual

By default, the minimum password length is 10 characters.
Note that:
The settings in system view have global significance, while those in local user view only have local
significance.
If both global and local settings are available, the local settings take effect.
Example
# Set, in global sense, the minimum password length to 8.
<Sysname>system-view
System View: return to User View with Ctrl+Z.
[Sysname] password-control length 8
# Set the minimum length of a local user password to 9.
[Sysname] local-user test
[Sysname-luser-test] password-control length 9

password-control login-attempt

Syntax
password-control login-attempt login-times [ exceed { lock | unlock | lock-time time } ]
undo password-control { login-attempt | exceed }
View
System view
Parameter
login-times: Number of login attempts allowed for each user. The effective range is 2 to 10.
exceed: Specifies the processing mode used after login failure.
lock: A processing mode. In this mode, a user who fails to log in is added to the blacklist and cannot log
in the device until the administrator manually removes this user from the blacklist.
lock-time time: A processing mode. In this mode, a user who fails to log in is inhibited from logging in to
the device in a certain period, which ranges from 3 to 360 (in minutes). The default value of time is 120
minutes.
unlock: A processing mode. In this mode, a user who fails to log in can continue to log into the switch
without any inhibition.
Description
Use the password-control login-attempt command to configure the maximum number of password
attempts allowed for each user.
Use the undo password-control login-attempt command to restore the default setting.
Use the password-control login-attempt exceed command to configure the processing mode used
after the password attempt failure.
Use the undo password-control exceed command to restore the default setting.
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