12: User Authentication
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2) Continue to set Local User Passwords
:
2. Click the Apply button.
Sysadmin Account Default Login Values
On factory default SLC units, the local user sysadmin account has the following default login
values.
SLC units manufactured after the release of SLC firmware 8.3.0.0:
username: sysadmin
password: the last 8 characters of the Device ID (ConsoleFlow ID). If the Device ID is not set,
the password is the last 8 characters of the serial number.
SLC units manufactured before the release of SLC firmware 8.3.0.0:
username: sysadmin
password: PASS
If you don’t know when the SLC unit was manufactured, you can do the following to identify
whether the device-unique sysadmin password is supported and enabled on the SLC hardware.
View the About SLC page or run the CLI admin version command and look for the following in
Authenticate only
remote users who are
in the remote users list
Select the check box to authenticate users listed in the Remote Users list in the
lower part of the page. Disabled by default.
Deny access to remote
users assigned to
groups that do not map
to SLC custom group
Select the check box to authenticate remote users whose LDAP group or
TACACS+ priv_lvl map to a SLC custom group, allow SLC access if matched.
Disabled by default.
Complex Passwords Select to enable the SLC unit to enforce rules concerning the password structure
(e.g., alphanumeric requirements, number of characters, punctuation marks).
Disabled by default.
Complexity rules:
Passwords must be at least eight characters long.
They must contain one upper case letter (A-Z), one lower case letter (a-z), one
digit ( 0-9), and one punctuation character (()`~!@#$%%^&*-+=\{}[]:;"'<>,.?/_).
Allow Reuse Select to enable users to continue to reuse old passwords. If you disable the
check box, they cannot use any of the Reuse History number of passwords.
Enabled by default.
Reuse History The number of passwords the user must use before reusing an old password. The
default is 4.
For example, if you set reuse history to 4, the user may reuse an old password
after using 4 other passwords.
Password Lifetime
(days)
The number of days until the password expires. The default setting is 90.
Warning Period
(days)
The number of days ahead that the system warns that the user's password will
expire. The default setting is 7.
Max Login Attempts The number of times (up to 8) the user can attempt to log in unsuccessfully before
the system locks the user out. The default setting is 0 (disabled).
Lockout Period
(minutes)
The number of minutes (up to 90) the locked-out user must wait before trying to
log in to the web interface again. The default setting is 0 (disabled).