ZyXEL Communications 2WE Network Card User Manual


 
ZyWALL 2 and ZyWALL 2WE
88 Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection
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.