Configure Login Failure Delay

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1   Description

This instruction describes how to configure login failure delay for user authentication. The login failure delay value controls how long the delay is in seconds after an unsuccessful authentication until the next authentication attempt can be performed. There is also an operating system internal random variation in the delay to prevent systematic attack scenarios.

2   Procedure

2.1   Change Login Failure Delay

Prerequisites

Steps

  1. Navigate to UserManagement Managed Object (MO), for example:

    >dn ManagedElement=1,SystemFunctions=1,SecM=1,UserManagement=1

  2. Enter Config mode:

    (UserManagement=1)>configure

  3. Set the login failure delay as required, for example, to 12 seconds:

    (config-UserManagement=1)>loginFailureDelay=12

  4. Commit the setting:

    (config-UserManagement=1)>commit

  5. Verify the loginFailureDelay:

    (UserManagement=1)>show loginFailureDelay

    The following is an example output:

    loginFailureDelay=12

2.2   Remove Login Failure Delay

Steps

  1. Navigate to UserManagement MO, for example:

    >dn ManagedElement=1,SystemFunctions=1,SecM=1,UserManagement=1

  2. Enter Config mode:

    (UserManagement=1)>configure

  3. Delete login failure delay:

    (config-UserManagement=1)>no loginFailureDelay

  4. Commit the setting:

    (config-UserManagement=1)>commit

  5. Verify the loginFailureDelay is deleted:

    (UserManagement=1)>show loginFailureDelay

    The following is an example output:

    loginFailureDelay=[]