ZyWALL 2 and ZyWALL 2WE

Appendix R

Brute-Force Password Guessing

Protection

The following describes the commands for enabling, disabling and configuring the brute-force password guessing protection mechanism for the password. See the Command Interpreter appendix for information on the command structure.

Chart R-1 Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection Commands

COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

sys pwderrtm

This command displays the brute-force guessing password protection

 

settings.

sys pwderrtm 0

This command turns off the password’s protection from brute-force guessing.

 

The brute-force password guessing protection is turned off by default.

sys pwderrtm N

This command sets the password protection to block all access attempts for N

 

(a number from 1 to 60) minutes after the third time an incorrect password is

 

entered.

Example

 

sys pwderrtm 5

This command sets the password protection to block all access attempts for

 

five minutes after the third time an incorrect password is entered.

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