Brocade OS Command Reference Manual Supporting Fabric OS v6.0.0 (53-1000599-01, October 2007)

372 Fabric OS Command Reference
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passwdCfg
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password "passABCword" is disallowed because it contains the sequence
"ABC". A password of "passABword" would be allowed because no repeated
character sequence exceeds two characters. The range of allowed values is
1-40. The default value is 1.
--disableadminlockout
Disables the admin lockout policy if already enabled and will set the config
parameter "passwdcfg.adminlockout" to 0. By default, admin lockout policy is
disabled.
--setdefault Resets all password policies to their default values.
--help Displays command usage.
Examples To display the current password configuration parameters:
switch:admin> passwdcfg --showall
passwdcfg.minlength: 8
passwdcfg.lowercase: 0
passwdcfg.uppercase: 0
passwdcfg.digits: 0
passwdcfg.punctuation: 0
passwdcfg.history: 1
passwdcfg.minpasswordage: 0
passwdcfg.maxpasswordage: 0
passwdcfg.warning: 0
passwdcfg.lockoutthreshold: 0
passwdcfg.lockoutduration: 30
passwdcfg.status: 0
To set passwd configuration parameters, specifying that a password must contain at least two
uppercase characters, and that passwords expire in 90 days from the date they are defined:
switch:admin> passwdcfg --set -uppercase 2 -maxpasswordage 90
Diagnostics The passwdCfg command may fail for any of the following reasons:
Permission failure
The user is not permitted to execute the command.
Invalid command line option
An unrecognized command line option was specified.
minlength value out of range
The -minlength value must 8 to 40.
lowercase value out of range
The -lowercase value specified must be greater than or equal to 0 and less
than or equal to -minlength value.
uppercase value out of range
The -uppercase value specified must be greater than or equal to 0 and less
than or equal to -minlength value.