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User authentication
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Command line
1. Log into the IX10 command line as a user with full Admin access rights.
Depending on your device configuration, you may be presented with an Access selection
menu. Type admin to access the Admin CLI.
2. At the command line, type config to enter configuration mode:
> config
(config)>
3. Add a user. For example, to create a user named new_user:
(config)> add auth user new_user
(config auth user new_user)>
The user is enabled by default. To disable the user, type:
(config auth user new_user)> enable false
(config auth user new_user)>
4. Set the user's password. The password must be at least ten characters long and must contain
at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number, and one special character.
(config auth user new_user> password pwd
(config auth user new_user)>
5. Configure login failure lockout settings:
The login failure lockout feature is enabled by default. To disable:
(config auth user new_user> lockout enable false
(config auth user new_user)>
a. Set the number of unsuccessful login attempts before the user is locked out of the device.
where value is any integer. The minimum value is 1, and the default value is 5.
b. Set the amount of time that the user is locked out after the number of unsuccessful login
attempts defined in lockout tries:
(config auth user new_user> lockout duration value
(config auth user new_user)>
where value is any number of minutes, or seconds, and takes the format number{m|s}.
For example, to set duration to ten minutes, enter either 10m or 600s:
(config auth user new_user)> lockout duration 600s
(config auth user new_user)>
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