ZyAIR B-420 Wireless LAN Ethernet Adapter and Bridge

Appendix B 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 B-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.

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.

By default, the brute-force password guessing protection is turned ON with a 3-minute wait time.

Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection

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