ZyXEL Communications ZyWALL 300 User Manual

 Chapter 34 User/Group

ZyWALL USG 300 User’s Guide

The following table describes the labels in this screen.  

Table 162   User/Group > Setting

User Default 
Setting

User Type

Select the default user type when you create a new user account. You can still 
change the user type for each user account.

Lease Time

Select the default lease time when you create a new user account. You can specify 
1 to 1440 minutes. You can enter 0 to make the number of minutes unlimited. You 
can still change the lease time for each user account.

Reauthentica
tion Time

Select the default reauthentication time when you create a new user account. You 
can specify 1 to 1440 minutes. You can enter 0 to make the number of minutes 
unlimited. You can still change the reauthentication time for each user account.

User Logon 
Setting

Limit ... for 
administratio
n account

Select this check box if you want to set a limit on the number of simultaneous logins 
by admin users. If you do not select this, admin users can login as many times as 
they want at the same time using the same or different IP addresses.

Maximum 
number per 
administratio
n account

This field is effective when Limit ... for administration account is checked. Type 
the maximum number of simultaneous logins by each admin user. The number 
must be between 1 and 1024.

Limit ... for 
access 
account

Select this check box if you want to set a limit on the number of simultaneous logins 
by non-admin users. If you do not select this, access users can login as many times 
as they want as long as they use different IP addresses.

Maximum 
number per 
access 
account

This field is effective when Limit ... for access account is checked. Type the 
maximum number of simultaneous logins by each access user. The number must 
be between 1 and 1024.

User Lockout 
Setting

Enable logon 
retry limit

Select this check box to set a limit on the number of times each user can login 
unsuccessfully (for example, wrong password) before the IP address is locked out 
for a specified amount of time.

Maximum 
retry count

This field is effective when Enable logon retry limit is checked. Type the 
maximum number of times each user can login unsuccessfully before the IP 
address is locked out for the specified lockout period. The number must be 
between 1 and 99.

Lockout 
period

This field is effective when Enable logon retry limit is checked. Type the number 
of minutes the user must wait to try to login again, if logon retry limit is enabled 
and the maximum retry count is reached. This number must be between 1 and 
65,535 (about 45.5 days).

User 
Miscellaneous 
Setting

Allow 
renewing 
lease time ...

Select this check box if access users can renew lease time automatically, as well 
as manually, simply by checking the Updating lease time automatically check 
box on their screen.

Enable user 
idle detection

This is applicable for access users.
Select this check box if you want the ZyWALL to monitor how long each access 
user is logged in and idle (in other words, there is no traffic for this access user). 
The ZyWALL automatically logs out the access user once the User idle timeout 
has been reached.