Enabling Password Control; Setting Global Password Control Parameters - HP A5830 Series Configuration Manual

Task
Setting super password control parameters
Setting a local user password in interactive mode

Enabling password control

To enable password control functions, you must do the following:
Enable the password control feature in system view. Password control configurations take effect
1.
only after the password control feature is enabled globally.
Enable password control functions. Some password control functions must be enabled individually
2.
after the password control feature is enabled globally. These functions include:
Password aging
•
Minimum password length
•
Password history
•
Password composition checking
•
You must enable a function for its relevant configurations to take effect.
To enable password control:
To do...
1. Enter system view.
2. Enable the password control
feature.
3. Enable a password control
function individually.
After global password control is enabled, local user passwords configured on the device are not
displayed when you use the corresponding display command.

Setting global password control parameters

To do...
1. Enter system view.
2. Set the password aging time.
3. Set the minimum password
update interval.
4. Set the minimum password
length.
Use the command...
system-view
password-control enable
password-control { aging |
composition | history | length }
enable
Use the command...
system-view
password-control aging aging-time
password-control password
update interval interval
password-control length length
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Remarks
Optional
Optional
Remarks
—
Required.
Disabled by default.
Optional.
All password control functions are
enabled by default.
Remarks
—
Optional.
90 days by default.
Optional.
24 hours by default.
Optional.
10 characters by default.