Crestron Electronics CP4N - Login Behavior

Product Manual — Doc. 8559B 4-Series™ Control Systems • 163
Update Local Password
To update the current user's password, issue the updatepassword command.
Users may update their password. The user is prompted to enter the current password once and
the new password twice. If the old password does not match the current password, the
operation fails and the password is not changed.
Reset User Password
To reset a user's password, issue the resetpassword command.
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Syntax: resetpassword -n:username -p:defaultpassword
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-n: - Specifies the user whose password will be reset
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-p: - Specifies a default password that can be provided to the user following the
reset
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Example: resetpassword -n:jsmith1 -p:Default321!
Login Behavior
Users must enter a username and password to connect to the control system.
A user is given a maximum of three login attempts for each type of transport protocol (Ethernet
and USB). If a user fails to authenticate against console within the maximum attempts allowed,
the transport protocol used to attempt the connection is blocked.
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For USB transport, the transport is blocked for 5 minutes after the maximum logon
attempt is reached. If the user tries again after 5 minutes and continues to fail, the block
time is doubled. The block time continues to be doubled until a successful logon or control
system restart happens. Once a user successfully authenticates against console, the
failure count is reset to zero, and the block time is reset to 5 minutes.
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For Ethernet transport, after a remote IP fails to logon within maximum attempts
allowed, the console forces the transport to close and blocks further logon attempts from
that remote IP for 24 hours.
NOTE: To regain access to the control system from a blocked IP, successfully log in to
the console over USB or from a different IPaddress, and then use the remblockedip
console command to remove the blocked IP. For more information, refer to Blocked IP
Address Functions (on page166).