Reference Guide

1338 | Security
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Usage
Information
The software measures the period of inactivity defined in this command as the period
between consecutive keystrokes. For example, if your password is “password” you
can enter “p” and wait 29 seconds to enter the next letter.
username
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Establish an authentication system based on user names.
Syntax
username
name [access-class access-list-name] [nopassword | {password | secret}
[encryption-type] password] [privilege level]
If you do not want a specific user to enter a password, use the
nopassword option.
To delete authentication for a user, use the
no username name command.
Parameters
Defaults
The default encryption type for the password option is 0. The default encryption type
for the
secret option is 0.
Command Modes
CONFIGURATION
Command
History
name
Enter a text string for the name of the user up to 63 characters.
access-class
access-list-name
Enter the keyword access-class followed by the name of a configured
access control list (either a IP access control list or MAC access control list).
nopassword
Enter the keyword nopassword to specify that the user should not enter a
password.
password
Enter the keyword password followed by the encryption-type or the
password.
secret
Enter the keyword secret followed by the encryption-type or the password.
encryption-type
Enter an encryption type for the password that you will enter.
• 0 directs FTOS to store the password as clear text. It is the default
encryption type when using the
password option.
• 7 to indicate that a password encrypted using a DES hashing algorithm
will follow. This encryption type is available with the
password option
only.
• 5 to indicate that a password encrypted using an MD5 hashing algorithm
will follow. This encryption type is available with the
secret option only,
and is the default encryption type for this option.
password Enter a string up to 32 characters long.
privilege level Enter the keyword privilege followed by a number from zero (0) to 15.
secret
Enter the keyword secret followed by the encryption type.
Version 8.3.19.0 Introduced on S4820T
Version 8.3.7.0 Introduced on S4810