Password Control Configuration; Configuring Password Aging - 3Com E4500-24 Cli Configuration Manual

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Password Control Configuration

Configuration Prerequisites
A user PC is connected to the switch to be configured; both devices are operating normally.
Configuration Tasks
The following sections describe the configuration tasks for password control:

Configuring Password Aging

Configuring the Limitation of Minimum Password Length
Configuring History Password Recording
Configuring a User Login Password in Interactive Mode
Configuring Login Attempt Times Limitation and Failure Processing Mode
Configuring the Password Authentication Timeout Time
Configuring Password Composition Policies
After the above configuration, you can execute the display password-control command in any view to
check the information about the password control for all users, including the enabled/disabled state of
password aging, the aging time, enabled/disabled state of password composition policy, minimum
number of types that a password should contain, minimum number of characters of each type, the
enabled/disabled state of history password recording, the maximum number of history password
records, the alert time before password expiration, the timeout time for password authentication, the
maximum number of attempts, and the processing mode for login attempt failures.
If the password attempts of a user fail for several times, the system adds the user to the blacklist. You
can execute the display password-control blacklist command in any view to check the names and
the IP addresses of such users.
Configuring Password Aging
Table 1-2 Configure password aging
Operation
Enter system view
Enable password aging
Configure a password aging
time globally
Configure a password aging
time for a super password
Enable the system to alert
users to change their
passwords when their
passwords will soon expire,
and specify how many days
ahead of the expiration the
system alerts the users.
Command
system-view
password-control aging enable
password-control
aging-time
password-control
super
aging-time
password-control
alert-before-expire alert-time
1-3
Description
Optional
By default, password aging is
enabled.
Optional
aging
By default, the aging time is
90 days.
Optional
aging
By default, the aging time is
90 days.
Optional
By default, users are alerted
seven days ahead of the
password expiration.

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