Cisco Cisco Content Security Management Appliance M390 Guía Del Usuario
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Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 8.0 for Security Management User Guide
Chapter 12 Distributing Administrative Tasks
Step 3
Click Reset Passwords.
Locking and Unlocking Local User Accounts
Locking a user account prevents a local user from logging into the appliance. A user account can be
locked in one of the following ways:
locked in one of the following ways:
•
You can configure all local user accounts to lock after users fail to log in successfully after a
configured number of attempts. See
configured number of attempts. See
•
Administrators can manually lock user accounts. See
.
AsyncOS displays the reason why the user account was locked when you view the user account on the
Edit User page.
Edit User page.
Locking User Accounts Manually
Procedure
Step 1
First time only: Set up the appliance to enable user account locking:
a.
Go to Management Appliance > System Administration > Users.
b.
In the Local User Account & Password Settings section, click Edit Settings.
c.
Select the checkbox to Display Locked Account Message if Administrator has manually locked
a user account and enter your message.
a user account and enter your message.
d.
Submit the change.
Step 2
Go to Management Appliance > System Administration > Users and click the user name.
Note
Before you lock the Admin account, be sure that you can unlock it. See the Note in
Step 3
Click Lock Account.
AsyncOS displays a message saying that the user will be unable to log into the appliance and asks if you
want to continue.
want to continue.
Unlocking User Accounts
To unlock a user account, open the user account by clicking on the user name in the Users listing and
click Unlock Account.
click Unlock Account.
Note
If you lock the admin account, you can only unlock it by logging in as the admin through a serial
communications connection to the serial console port. The admin user can always access the appliance
using the serial console port, even when the admin account is locked. See the “Setup and Installation”
chapter in the Cisco IronPort AsyncOS for Email Configuration Guide for more information on accessing
the appliance using the serial console port.
communications connection to the serial console port. The admin user can always access the appliance
using the serial console port, even when the admin account is locked. See the “Setup and Installation”
chapter in the Cisco IronPort AsyncOS for Email Configuration Guide for more information on accessing
the appliance using the serial console port.