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Managing Switch User Accounts

Configuring Password Policy Settings

OmniSwitch AOS Release 6 Switch Management Guide

page 8-13

The character requirements specified in the global password policy determine the minimum number of 
uppercase, lowercase, non-alphanumeric, and 10-base digit characters required in all passwords. These 
requirements are configured using the following user password-policy commands:

Specifying zero with any of the these commands disables the requirement. For example, if the number of 
minimum uppercase characters is set to zero (the default), then there is no requirement for a password to 
contain any uppercase characters.

By default, password expiration is disabled on the switch. A global default password expiration may be 
specified for all users or password expiration may be set for an individual user.

Note. When the current user’s password has less than one week before expiration, the switch will display 
an expiration warning after login.

If a user’s password expires, the user will be unable to log into the switch through any interface; the 
admin user must reset the user’s password. If the admin user’s password expires, the admin user will 
have access to the switch through the console port with the currently configured password.

To set password expiration globally, use the 

 command with the desired 

number of days; the allowable range is 1 to 150 days. For example:

-> user password-expiration 3

The default password expiration is now set to three days. All user passwords on the switch will be set or 
reset with the three-day expiration. If an individual user was configured with a different expiration through 
the 

 command, the expiration will be reset to the global value.

The expiration is based on the switch system date/time and date/time the user password-expiration 
command is entered. For example, if a user is configured with a password expiration of 10 days, but the 
global setting is 20 days, that user’s password will expire in 10 days.

To disable the default password expiration, use the user password-expiration command with the disable 
option:

-> user password-expiration disable

The minimum number of uppercase characters 
required in all passwords.

The minimum number of lowercase characters 
required in all passwords.

The minimum number of base-10 digits required 
in all passwords.

The minimum number of non-alphanumeric char-
acters (symbols) required in all passwords.