In LANconfig, the field for entering the password can be found under . In a CLI session, you set or change the password with the command passwd. The maximum length of the main device password is 128 characters.
- The length of the password is at least 8 characters.
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The password contains at least 3 of the 4 character classes, i.e. lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
Important: Please note that this feature has no effect on existing passwords. Only when passwords are changed are they checked for their policy compliance.
In the Configuration login lock section you can block access to the configuration for a few minutes after a configurable number of failed login attempts. This is an important aid against brute-force attacks on login data. A brute-force attack is the attempt by an unauthorized person to crack a password to gain access to a network, a computer or another device. To achieve this, a computer, for example, can go through all the possible combinations of letters and numbers until the right password is found. As a measure of protection against such attacks, the maximum allowed number of unsuccessful login attempts can be set. If this limit is reached, access will be barred for a certain time. The login lock only applies to the access path being used. The other access paths are still available.
