Brute-force password guessing protection – ZyXEL Communications 10 User Manual

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ZyWALL 10~100 Series Internet Security Gateway

Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection

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Appendix R

Brute-Force Password Guessing

Protection

The following describes the commands for enabling, disabling and configuring the brute-force password
guessing protection mechanism for the password. See the Command Interpreter appendix for information on
the command structure.

Chart R-1 Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection Commands

COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

sys pwderrtm

This command displays the brute-force guessing password protection
settings.

sys pwderrtm 0

This command turns off the password’s protection from brute-force guessing.
The brute-force password guessing protection is turned off by default.

sys pwderrtm N

This command sets the password protection to block all access attempts for N
(a number from 1 to 60) minutes after the third time an incorrect password is
entered.

Example

sys pwderrtm 5

This command sets the password protection to block all access attempts for
five minutes after the third time an incorrect password is entered.

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