Concept Guide
– 7 directs the system to store the password with a dynamic salt.
When you congure the root access password, ensure that your password meets the following criteria:
– A minimum of eight characters in length
– A minimum of one lower case letter (a to z)
– A minimum of one upper case letter (A to Z)
– A minimum of one numeric character (0 to 9)
– A minimum of one special character including a space (" !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~")
If you enable the boot access password, the system prompts for a password when you access the GRUB interface.
DellEMC(conf)#boot-access password 7 Hg$7^5HMoiY%
***********************************************************************
* Warning - boot-access password will enable password protection in *
* GRUB. Keep it safe. Forgetting this password and the CLI password *
* may result in switch becoming inaccessible. *
***********************************************************************
Do you want to configure boot-access password? Proceed [yes/no]:yes
DellEMC(conf)#
Enabling User Lockout for Failed Login Attempts
You can congure the system to lock out local users for a specic period for unsuccessful login attempts.
This feature enhances the security of the switch by locking out the local user account if there are more number of unsuccessful login
attempts than what is congured using the max-retry parameter. To enable the user lock out feature, use the following commands:
Enable the user lockout feature.
CONFIGURATION
password-attributes user-lockout-period minutes
Enter the duration in minutes.
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