Password Change Option in Warning Period

Feature Summary and Revision History

Summary Data

Applicable Product(s) or Functional Area

StarOS

Applicable Platform(s)

  • ASR 5500

  • VPC-DI

  • VPC-SI

Feature Default

Enabled - Always-on

Related Changes in This Release

Not Applicable

Related Documentation

Not Applicable

Revision History

Revision Details

Release

This feature supports a password change option in warning period.

  • 21.26.h5

  • 21.26.15

Feature Changes

Previous Behavior: When a warning about approaching password expiry is received, the change in password does not happen during the warning period when option "Y" is entered. The only way to change the password is with the configuration command.

New Behavior: You can change the password in the warning period. 

When in warning period
1.Warning: Your password is about to expire in 3 days.
         We recommend you to change password.
         Logins are not allowed without acknowleding this.
         Do you want to change it now ? [y/n] (times out in 30 seconds) : n
# <you are logged in>
2.Warning: Your password is about to expire in 3 days.
         We recommend you to change password.
         Logins are not allowed without acknowleding this.
         Do you want to change it now ? [y/n] (times out in 30 seconds) : y
Auto generated password : <Jc42Q8hU>
Do you want to use auto-generated password? [y/n]: n
New password:
Repeat new password:
# <you are logged in>

Customer Impact: During Warning period user can change the password.