Lock and unlock an administrator account

03/12/2025 Contributors

You can use the security login lock command to lock an administrator account, and the security login unlock command to unlock the account.

Before you begin

You must be a cluster administrator to perform these tasks.

Steps

Lock an administrator account:

security login lock -vserver SVM_name -username user_name

The following command locks the administrator account admin1 for the SVM vs1.example.com:
```
cluster1::>security login lock -vserver engData -username admin1
```
Unlock an administrator account:

security login unlock -vserver SVM_name -username user_name

The following command unlocks the administrator account admin1 for the SVM vs1.example.com:
```
cluster1::>security login unlock -vserver engData -username admin1
```

Learn more about security login lock and security login unlock in the ONTAP command reference.