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Password Management Commands
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Example
The following example sets the password age limit to 100 days.
console(config)#passwords aging 100
passwords history
As administrator, use the passwords history command in Global
Configuration mode to set the number of previous passwords that are stored
for each user account. When a local user changes his or her password, the user
is not able to reuse any password stored in password history. This setting
ensures that users do not reuse their passwords often. The default is 0. Use
the no form of this command to set the password history to the default value
of 0.
Syntax
passwords history
0-10
no passwords history
Parameter Description
This command does not require a parameter description.
Default Configuration
The default value is 0.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
This command has no user guidelines.
Example
The following example sets the number of previous passwords remembered by
the system at 10.
console(config)#passwords history 10
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