3com 5500-ei pwr Reference Guide

 

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By default, the minimum password length is 10 characters.  

Note that:

 

z 

The settings in system view have global significance, while those in local user view only have local 

significance.

 

z 

If both global and local settings are available, the local settings take effect.

 

# Set, in global sense, the minimum password length to 8.  

<Sysname>system-view 

System View: return to User View with Ctrl+Z. 

[Sysname] password-control length 8 

# Set the minimum length of a local user password to 9.

 

[Sysname] local-user test 

[Sysname-luser-test] password-control length 9 

password-control login-attempt login-times [ exceed { lock | unlock | lock-time time } ] 

undo password-control { login-attempt | exceed } 

System view 

login-times: Number of login attempts allowed for each user. The effective range is 2 to 10. 

exceed: Specifies the processing mode used after login failure.  

lock: A processing mode. In this mode, a user who fails to log in is added to the blacklist and cannot log 

in the device until the administrator manually removes this user from the blacklist. 

lock-time time: A processing mode. In this mode, a user who fails to log in is inhibited from logging in to 

the device in a certain period, which ranges from 3 to 360 (in minutes). The default value of time is 120 

minutes.  

unlock: A processing mode. In this mode, a user who fails to log in can continue to log into the switch 

without any inhibition. 

Use the password-control login-attempt command to configure the maximum number of password 

attempts allowed for each user. 

Use the undo password-control login-attempt command to restore the default setting.  

Use the password-control login-attempt exceed command to configure the processing mode used 

after the password attempt failure. 

Use the undo password-control exceed command to restore the default setting.