authentication (Security Alarms)
Syntax
authentication failures;
Hierarchy Level
[edit security alarms potential-violation]
Description
Raise a security alarm when the device or switch detects a specified number of authentication failures (bad password attempts) before an alarm is raised.
This value must be equal to or less than the tries-before-disconnect setting at the [edit system login retry-options] hierarchy
level; otherwise, the login session ends before the user reaches the
alarmable threshold.
Default
Multiple authentication failures do not cause an alarm to be raised.
Options
failures—Number
of authentication failures that causes an alarm to be raised.
Range: 1 through 10.
Required Privilege Level
security—To view this statement in the configuration.
security-control—To add this statement to the configuration.
Release Information
Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 11.2.