Users Guide

Security Commands 1008
Syntax
username name {nopassword|password password } [privilege level |admin-
profile
profile ] [encrypted]
no username
name
• name— The name of the user. Range: 1-64 printable characters. The
special characters allowed in the username include ! # $ % & ‘ ( ) * +
, - . / : ; < = > @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { | } ~. Question marks are
disallowed.User names can contain blanks if the name is surrounded by
double quotes.
•
password —The authentication password for the user. Range: 8-64
characters. This value can be 0 [zero] if the no passwords min-length
command has been executed. The special characters allowed in the
password include ! # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > @ [ \ ] ^
_ ` { | } ~. Question marks are disallowed.
•
level —The user’s privilege level. Level 0 can be assigned by a level 15 user
to another user to restrict that user’s access to the switch. Supported
access levels are 0, 1, or 15. Enter access level 0 to disallow login, 1 for Read
Access, or 15 for Read/Write Access.
• nopassword— Configure a switch administrator with no password. Note
that the SSH is configured to require a password to access the switch. Use
of a password for administrative access is highly recommended.
•
profile — The name of the administrative profile(s) to apply to this user.
An administrative profile is mutually exclusive with a privilege level.
• 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: