Administrator Guide

Security Commands 898
• encrypted— Encrypted password entered, copied from another switch
configuration. Password strength checking is not applied to the encrypted
string.
Default Configuration
The default privilege level is 1.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
The following rules and restrictions apply:
• User accounts have an associated privilege level, a user name, and a user
password.
• The password is saved internally in hashed format and never appears in
clear text anywhere in the UI.
• An administrator (privilege level 15) may create additional administrator
accounts.
• An administrator may delete any or all administrator accounts, including
his own.
To use the ! character as part of the username or password string, it should be
enclosed within quotation marks. For example, username “test!xyz” password
“test!xyz” includes an exclamation point in both the username and password.
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 is restricted from using Privileged Exec or any Configuration level
commands. There is effectively no difference between Privilege level 1 and 15.
The following table lists the completion messages.
Message Type Message Description
Successful Completion Message No message is displayed.