Configuring password management parameters

Password management parameters consists of defining aging, the authentication order and authentication methods, password length and complexity, as well as the number of attempts a user can enter a password.

Depending on the your authentication requirements, password parameters are configured locally.

Use the following syntax to configure password support.

config>system>security
        password
            admin-password password [hash|hash2]
            aging days
            attempts count [time minutes1] [lockout minutes2]
            authentication-order [method-1] [method-2] [method-3] [exit-on-reject]
            complexity-rules 
                allow-user-name
                credits [lowercase credits] [uppercase credits] [numeric credits] [special-character credits]
                minimum-classes minimum
                minimum-length length
                repeated-characters count
                required [lowercase count] [uppercase count] [numeric count] [special-character count]
            hashing {bcrypt|sha2-pbkdf2}
            health-check [interval interval]
            history-size size
            minimum-age [days days] [hrs hours] [min minutes] [sec seconds]
            minimum-change distance

Example: Password configuration output

A:ALA-1>config>system>security# info
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password
authentication-order radius tacplus local
aging 365
minimum-length 8
attempts 5 time 5 lockout 20
exit
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A:ALA-1>config>system>security#