Quick Reference Guide

462 TIC Commands
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Command Mode
Global Configuration mode.
User Guidelines
• Relevant to local user passwords, line passwords, and enable passwords.
• Password history is not checked during the configuration download.
• Password history is saved even if the feature is disabled.
• A user’s password history is saved as long as the user is defined.
• If the user enters a password that is identical to the previously used one, the password is not
included in the password history count. This is required to enable the user to modify privilege
level or aging, without having to change passwords.
Example
The following example configures the required number of password changes before a password can
be reused to 3.
passwords history hold-time
The passwords history hold-time Global Configuration mode command configures the number of
days a password is relevant for tracking its password history. Use the no form of this command to
return to the default configuration.
Syntax
• passwords history hold-time days
• no passwords hold-time
• days — Number of days a password is relevant for tracking its password history. (Range: 1 - 365)
Default Configuration
Disabled.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode.
User Guidelines
Relevant to local user passwords, line passwords, and enable passwords.
For tracking purposes, passwords are not deleted from the history database after becoming
’irrelevant’. A period of time that the password cannot be changed (according to the history
table) must be configured. By increasing a password ’s relevance for tracking purposes by a
number of days, it may cause the irrelevant password to be relevant again.
Console(config)# passwords history 3