Switch Management
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D E L L CO N F I D E N T I A L – P R E L I M I N A RY 8 / 9 / 16 - F O R P RO O F O N L Y
• Prevention of frequent password reuse
• Lockout of users after failed login attempts
• Number of different character classes required in the password. Numeric,
alphabetic, and special characters are all character classes.
• Length of time that past passwords are stored.
Password aging starts immediately after password management is enabled.
However it is only effective if system time on the device is taken from an
SNTP server. Passwords expire according to the user-defined expiration
date/time. Ten days prior to password expiration, the device displays a
password expiration warning message.
After the password has expired, users can log in a few additional times.
During the remaining logins, an additional warning message displays
informing the user that the password must be changed. If the password is not
changed, users are locked out of the system, and can only log in using the
console. Password warnings are logged in the SYSLOG file.
NOTE:
Password aging is enabled only after setting the switch to use SNTP for
setting time.
To define password management parameters:
1
Click
Switch Management >
Management Security
> Global
Password
Management
.
2
Click
Edit
to check the required fields and enter their values:
–
Enable Strong Passwords
— Check to enable this feature.
–
Repeated Characters
— Select the number of permissible repeated
characters in the password.
–
Password Minimum Length
— When checked, specifies the
minimum password length. Enter the minimum password length.
–
Enable Login Attempts
— When checked, enables locking a user out
of the device when a faulty password is used more than the number of
times entered. Select the maximum number of login attempts.
–
Global Password Aging
— When checked, specifies that the password
will expire in the number of days entered. Enter the number of days.
This is only enabled after setting the switch to use SNTP for setting
time