Clear System Password - Enterasys Matrix DFE-Gold Series Configuration Manual

Setting User Accounts and Passwords
If the require‐at‐creation option is enabled, the set system login command will interactively
prompt for a cleartext password upon creation of a new user account. It will be as if a set
password username command was implicitly executed. The new account will not be successfully
created until a valid password has been specified. A cleartext password will not be solicited if an
encrypted password is already specified by way of the set system login command's password
option.
If the allow‐duplicates option is set to no, a user will not be able to select as a new password one
which is already being used by another user.
If a substring‐match‐len option is set to zero, no substring matching will be performed when
validating new passwords. If the substring‐match‐len option is configured with a nonzero length,
any substring of the specified length appearing in the current password for this user may not
appear in a new password. If the configured history size is nonzero, then all historical passwords
up to that size will also be compared with the input of the new password. Any substring of the
configured length appearing in any of the historical passwords may not be used in the new
password. This option is not enforced when a password is changed by a superuser.
A password change‐frequency interval of zero means there is no restriction on the frequency of
password changes.
A configured minimum change‐frequency interval applies only to users without super‐user
privileges attempting to change their own passwords. Users with super‐user privileges may
change their passwords at any time.
Example
This example shows how to set the age of a system password for 60 days, the minimum lenght of
the password to 6 and that the same character can not repeat consecutively in the same password:
Matrix(su)->set system password age 60 length 6 allow-repeating-chars no

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Use this command to set local login password parameters to default values.
Syntax
set system password [aging] [history size] [length #ofChars] [min-required-chars
{[uppercase] [lowercase] [numeric] [special]}] [require-at-creation] [allow-
duplicate] [substring-match-len #ofChars] [allow-repeating-chars] [change-first-
login] [change-frequency minutes]
Parameters
aging
history size
length #ofChars
min‐required‐
chars
require‐at‐creation
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Specifies that the number of days to age the password be reset to the
default value.
Specifies that the number of passwords to keep in the password history
for a user account be reset to the default value.
Specifies that the minimum number of characters that must be present
in a user account password be reset to the default value.
Specifies that the minimum number of characters of the specified type
that must be present in a user account password be set to the default
value: uppercase, lowercase, numeric, special
Specifies that the requirement that a password be configured at the time
of user account creation be set to the default value.
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