3com 5500-ei pwr Installation Instruction

 

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Configure the password 
composition policy for the local 
user 

password-control 
composition type-number 
policy-type [ type-length 
type-length ] 

Optional 

By default, the minimum number 
of types a password should 
contain is 1 and the minimum 
number of characters of each 
type is 1. 

If the type-length is not specified, 
the global type-length is used. 

 

In this section, you must note the effective range of the same commands when executed in different 

views or to different types of passwords: 

z 

Global settings in system view apply to all local user passwords and super passwords. 

z 

Settings in the local user view apply to the local user password only. 

z 

Settings on the parameters of the super passwords apply to super passwords only. 

The priority of these settings is as follows: 

z 

For local user passwords, the settings in local user view override those in system view unless the 

former are not provided. 

z 

For super passwords, the separate settings for super password override those in system view 

unless the former are not provided. 

 

After completing the above configuration, you can execute the display command in any view to display 

the operation of the password control and verify your configuration. 

Table 1-11 Displaying password control 

Display the information about the 
password control for all users 

Display the information about the super 
password control  

Display the information about one or all 
users who have been added to the blacklist 
because of password attempt failure 

display password-control blacklist [ user-name

 

user-name | ip ip-address ] 

 

The following password control functions should be implemented: 

z 

Globally, the password aging time is 30 days.