User manual

Chapter 6. Device Management
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Item Meaning
Login
Settings
Maximum
Login Failures
Sets the number of failed login attempts that are allowed
before the user is locked out of further attempts to log in.
Checking Disabled allows an unlimited number of login
failure attempts
Lockout Period Sets the amount of time a user must wait after being
locked out before being able to try logging in again.
Disable OSD
Login Mode
Checking this box allows non-authenticated logins to the
console module, controlled by the Non-Auth account in
User Management. When disabled accounts can still
login, but the Username and Password fields can be left
blank, allowing any user to login to a console merely by
pressing the Enter key. This account can not be deleted
but can be managed as any other user account
(See Overview, page 83). This option is not secure and
it’s highly recommended to take consideration before
enabling it.
Disable RS-
232 Login
Mode
If Disable RS-232 Login Mode is checked, administrators
connecting to a console module via serial terminal logins
will not need to provide a username and password to
access the switch.
Simplified OSD Checking this box creates a limited login mode with basic
functionality for all User type accounts when they login
locally to the console.
Account
Policy
Minimum
Username
Length
Sets the minimum number of characters required for a
username. Acceptable values are from 1–16. The default
is 6.
Minimum
Password
Length
Sets the minimum number of characters required for a
password. Acceptable values are from 0–16. A setting of
0 means that no password is required. Users can login
with only a Username. The default is 6.
Password Must
Contain At
Least
Checking any of these items requires users to include at
least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter or one
number in their password.
Note: Note: This policy only affects user accounts created
after this policy has been enabled, and password
changes to existing user accounts. Users accounts
created before this policy was enabled, and there is no
change to the existing passwords, are notaffected.
Password
Expiration
Click to put a check in this box if you want user passwords
to expire after a certain number of days. If the box is
unchecked, user passwords do not expire.
Password
expires after
(days):
If you enable Password Expiration, key in the number of
days a password is valid for. At the end of that period, the
user’s password expires and must be given a new one.