Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C170 Guia Do Utilizador

You can also configure all local user accounts to lock after users fail to login successfully after a 
configured number of attempts. For more information, see 

.

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 

 for more information on accessing the appliance using the serial console port.

You can define user account and password restrictions to enforce organizational password policies. The 
user account and password restrictions apply to local users defined on the Cisco appliance. You can 
configure the following settings:

User account locking. You can define how many failed login attempts cause the user to be locked 
out of the account. 

Password lifetime rules. You can define how long a password can exist before the user is required 
to change the password after logging in.

Password rules. You can define what kinds of passwords users can choose, such as which characters 
are optional or mandatory.

You define user account and password restrictions on the System Administration > Users page in the 
Local User Account and Password Settings section. 

Choose System Administration > Users. 

Scroll to the Local User Account and Password Settings section. 

Click Edit Settings. 

Configure the settings described in 

.