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User Account Administration

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