Dell PowerConnect 3548 Command Line Interface Guide - Page 445

User Guidelines Relevant to local user passwords, line passwords, and enable passwords. For tracking purposes, passwords are not deleted from the history database after becoming 'irrelevant'. A period of time that the password cannot be changed (according to the history table) must be configured. By increasing a password 's relevance for tracking purposes by a number of days, it may cause the irrelevant password to be relevant again. Example The following example configures the number of days that a password is relevant for tracking its password history to 120. Console(config)# passwords history hold-time 120 passwords lockout The passwords lockout Global Configuration mode command sets the number of failed login attempts before a user account is locked. Use the no form of this command to remove this condition. Syntax • passwords lockout number • no passwords lockout • number - Number of failed login attempts before the user account is locked. (Range: 1 - 5) Default Configuration No locked user account due to failed login attempts. Command Mode Global Configuration mode. User Guidelines • Relevant to local user passwords, line passwords, and enable passwords. • The user account can still access the local console. • A different administrator, with privilege level 15, can release a locked account by using the set username active command. Example The following example configures the number of failed login attempts before a user account is locked to 3. Console(config)# passwords lockout 3 TIC Commands 445