3Com Switch 7750 Series
Command Reference Guide – Password Control Chapter 1 Password Control Configuration Commands
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alert-time: Alert time period. When the remaining usable time of a password is no more
than this time, the user is alerted to the forthcoming password expiration. It ranges from
1 day to 30 days and defaults to 7 days.
authentication-timeout: Timeout time for user authentication. It ranges from 30 seconds
to 120 seconds and defaults to 60 seconds.
exceed: Used to configure the processing mode used after login fails.
lock: A processing mode. In this mode, a login-failure user is added to the blacklist and
will be able to re-login only after the administrator manually removes this user from the
blacklist.
locktime time: A processing mode. In this mode, a login-failure user is inhibited from
logging in in a certain time period, which ranges from 3 to 360 (in minutes) and defaults
to 120 minutes; the user is allowed to log into the device again only after this time
passes.
unlock: A processing mode. In this mode, a login-failure user is allowed to log into the
switch again and again without any inhibition.
Description
Use the password-control aging aging-time command to configure the aging time for
system login passwords.
Use the password-control length length command to configure the minimum
password length for the system login passwords.
Use the password-control login-attempt login-times command to configure the
number of password attempts allowed for each user.
Use the password-control history max-record-num command to configure the
maximum number of history password records allowed for each user.
Use the password-control alert-before-expire alert-time command to configure the
alert time before password expiration, that is, specify the number of days before
password expiration to start a daily alert.
Use the password-control authentication-timeout authentication-timeout command
to configure the timeout time for user password authentication.
Use the password-control exceed command to configure the processing mode used
after password attempt fails.
By default, the system operates in locktime mode after password authentication fails.
Example
# Configure the aging time of the system login passwords to 100 days.
<3Com>system-view
System View: return to User View with Ctrl+Z.
[3Com] password-control aging 100