CLI Guide

Security Commands 978
Up to 8 users may be created. If the password strength feature is enabled, it
checks for password strength and returns an appropriate error if it fails to
meet the password strength criteria. If the encrypted keyword is entered, no
password strength checking is performed as the password is encrypted and the
system does not have the capability of decrypting the password. Privilege level
0 cannot log into the switch. There is effectively no difference between
Privilege level 1 and 15.
The following table lists the completion messages.
Example
The following example configures user bob with password xxxyymmmm and
user level 15.
console(config)# username bob password ?
Message Type Message Description
Successful Completion Message No message is displayed.
Error Completion Message Could not set user password!
Reason behind the failure
1 Exceeds Minimum Length of a Password.
Password should be in the range of 8-64
characters in length. Set minimum password
length to 0 by using the passwords min-length
0 command.
2 Password should contain Minimum
<number> uppercase-letters,
<number> lowercase-letters, <number>
numeric numbers,
<number> special characters and
<number> character classes and
Maximum limit of <number> consecutive
alphabetic and numeric
characters.
Maximum repetition of <number>
alphabetic and number characters.
3 Password should not contain the
keywords <keyword1>, <keyword2>
and <keyword3> in any form (reversed,
substring or case-insensitive).