Enterasys Matrix DFE-Gold Series

Setting User Accounts and Passwords set system password
2-20 Startup and General Configuration
Numeric: 0
Special: 0
Password assignment required at account creation : no
Allow multiple accounts to share same password : yes
Length of substrings in previous password(s) not allowed in new password: 0
Allow the same character to appear consecutively in a password : yes
Require non-superusers to change password at first login : no
Minimum interval between password changes by non-superusers : 0 minutes
set system password
Usethiscommandtoconfiguresystempasswordparameters.
Syntax
set system password [aging {days | disable}]
[history {size}]
[length {#ofChars}]
[min-required-chars {[uppercase #ofChars] [lowercase #ofChars] [numeric #ofChars]
[special #ofChars]}]
[require-at-creation {yes | no}]
[allow-duplicates {yes | no}]
[substring-match-len #ofChars]
[allow-repeating-chars {yes | no}]
[change-first-login {yes | no}]
[change-frequency minutes]
Parameters
agingdays|disable Specifiesthenumberofdaystoagethepassword.
• days‐Validvaluesare1‐365
• disable‐Agingisnottakenintoaccountforuseraccountpasswords.
historysize Specif iesthenumberofpasswordstokeepinthepasswordhistoryfora
useraccount.Validvalues:0‐10.
length#ofChars Specifiestheminimumnumberofcharactersinauseraccount
password.
min‐required‐
chars
Specifiestheminimumnumberofcharactersofthespecifiedtypethat
mustbepresentinauseraccountpasswordasfollows:
• uppercase#ofchars‐minimumnumberofuppercasecharacters
• lowercase#ofchars‐minimumnumberoflower
casecharacters
• numeric#ofchars‐minimum numberofnumericcharacters
• special#ofchars‐minimumnumberofspecialcharacters
Validvalues:0‐40inallcases.