Account locking is the locking (temporary disabling) of a user account. By enabling account locking, you can reduce the risk of unauthorized access from third parties. If you are managing user accounts by using a management server, we recommend that you enable account locking.
In Common Component products, you can automatically lock user accounts that fail to log on to the GUI many times in a row. To enable account locking, you must set the account locking policy (the number of consecutive, unsuccessful login attempts before accounts are locked).
Tip: As a way to lock an account, you
can change the lock status of a user account from the GUI.
Only users with the Admin (user management) permission can change the lock status.
CAUTION:
- Account locking cannot be performed on System accounts when initially installing Common Component products. System accounts are set with Admin permissions for all Common Component products. If you want to set account locking for System accounts to improve security, you must change the settings.
- If an external authentication server is used to authenticate users, the settings on the external authentication server are used to control automatic locking.