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policy is enforced across all user accounts except the root, factory, and SecurityAdmin role
accounts. A separate configuration option, available to the SecurityAdmin and Admin role accounts,
may be used to enable and disable applications of the account lockout policy to Admin role
accounts.
A failed login attempt counter is maintained for each user on each switch instance. The counters
for all user accounts are reset to zero when the account lockout policy is enabled. The counter for
an individual account is reset to zero when the account is unlocked after the lock-out duration
period expires.
Note The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.
Operands This command takes as input an operand and its associated arguments. When invoked without
operands, the command prints the usage.
--showall
--set
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Displays all the password configuration parameters.
Configures a specified password policy. The following arguments are
supported:
-lowercase value
Specifies the minimum number of lowercase alphabetic characters that must
occur in the password. The default value is 0. The maximum value must be
less than or equal to the -minlength value.
-uppercase value
Specifies the minimum number of uppercase alphabetic characters that
must occur in the password. The default value is 0. The maximum value must
be less than or equal to the -minlength value.
-digits value Specifies the minimum number of numeric digits that must occur in the
password. The default value is 0. The maximum value must be less than or
equal to the -minlength value.
-punctuation value
Specifies the minimum number of punctuation characters that must occur in
the password. All displayable, non-alphanumeric punctuation characters,
except the colon (:), are allowed. The default value is 0. The maximum value
must be less than or equal to the -minlength value.
-minlength value
Specifies the minimum length of the password. The minimum can be set
anywhere between 8 and 40 characters. The default value is 8. The total of
-lowercase, -uppercase, -digits, -punctuation must be less than or equal to
-minlength value.
-history value Specifies the number of past password values that are disallowed when
setting a new password. A value of 1 to 24 can be specified. The default value
is 1.
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