Managing Password Lockout And Disabling; Managing Password Expiry; Changing A Password - Avaya G250 Administration Manual

Accessing the Avaya G250/G350 Media Gateway
Note:
The minimum password length must be at least as great as the sum of the
Note:
minimum number of lowercase characters, uppercase characters, digit
characters, and special characters.

Managing password lockout and disabling

When you lockout a user account, it remains locked out only for a specific time period. Disabling
an account is a strong measure since it requires administrator intervention to re-enable the
account. An administrator must run the username command and re-configure the account
using the same user name and password.
Use the login authentication lockout command to lockout or disable a local
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account after successive failed login attempts. You can configure the lockout period to
between 30-3600 seconds. Both the lockout and the disabling policies go into effect after a
configured 1-10 successive failed login attempts.
Use the login authentication inactivity-period command to disable a local
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user account after an inactivity period of 2-365 days.

Managing password expiry

You can force all passwords to expire within a certain period of time after they were created.
Accounts with expired passwords are locked and require an administrator to reset the account
using the username command. However, a user can change the password before it expires
using the password command.
Use the login authentication password-expire command to cause all local user
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passwords to expire after 2-365 days.

Changing a password

If a password expiration policy is being implemented, it is recommended to change your
password before it expires. When a password expiration policy is in effect, then starting from 10
days before password expiration, a warning appears every time you log on, informing you that
your password will expire in
1. Use the password command to change your password. Enter and confirm the new
password.
2. Enter copy running-config startup-config so that the new password will take
effect.
The new password you enter must match the password policies described in
password length and contents
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