Command Line Interface Guide

AAA Commands 269
Example
The following example configures user bob with password xxxyymmmm and
user level 15.
console(config)# username bob password ?
<password> Enter the password. The special
characters allowed in the password include ~ ` ! @ # $
% ^ & * ( ) _ - + = [ ] { } \ | : ; ' < > . , /.
console(config)# username bob password xxxyyymmm
privilege 15
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
< nu m b e r > u pp e r c a s e - l e t t e r s ,
<number> lowercase-letters, <number>
numeric numbers,
<n u m b e r > s p e c i a l c h a r a c t e r s a n d
< n u m b e r > c h a r a c t e r c l a s s e s a n d
Maximum limit of <number> consecutive
alphabetic and numeric
characters.
M a x i m u m r e p e t i t i o n o f < n u m b e r >
alphabetic and number characters.
3 Pa s s w o r d s h o u l d n o t c o n t a i n t h e
k e y w o r d s < k e y w o r d 1 > , < k e y w o r d 2 >
a n d < k e y w o r d 3 > i n a n y f o r m ( r e v e r s e d ,
substring or case-insensitive).
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