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Use Password Settings to Administer User Accounts

You can use password settings to lock and suspend user accounts.

Account locking

Use account locking when you need to manually lock and unlock an account.

Account suspension

A user account is suspended when the user tries to log in with the wrong password multiple times or does not change a password before it expires.

If an indefinite password suspension is required, then do not set password-max-suspension or set it to zero (re-init friendly).

Password management rules help you manage user accounts. The rules include the following:

• Forcing a user to change the password after the administrator has reset it
• Allowing administrators to lock a particular user's account
• Locking user accounts after a certain number of unsuccessful login attempts
• Setting the time after which users can try to log in again after locking due to unsuccessful login attempts
• Raising an SNMP trap every time an account is locked
• Nominating a user account to act as a single proxy user to handle all account administration