How to unlock the user who has been locked out due to multiple login failures?

Zyxel_James
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Question: When there is a user gets locked out because he attempt to log in and failed multiple times?

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Answer:

The user is blocked by User IP Lockout Settings, which means the IP address of the user would be blocked if fails 6 times

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The admin account can unlock the user's IP address by CLI command.

First, check the IP address of the user, you can see it in Monitor Log

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Second, input the command to unlock the IP address

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Router# configure terminal

Router(config)# unlock lockout-users <ip address>