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unless your company enforces a best practices password policy for management users with root access to network
equipment.
The table below lists the special characters allowed and not allowed in any management user password
Example
The following command sets a management password policy that requires the password to have a minimum of
nine characters, including one numerical digit and one special character:
aaa password-policy mgmt
enable
password-min-digit 1
password-min-length 9
password-min-special-characters 1
Related Commands
Command History
This command was available in ArubaOS 5.0.
Allowed Characters Disallowed Characters
exclamation point: ! Parenthesis: ( )
underscore: _ apostrophe: '
at symbol: @ semi-colon: ;
pound sign: # dash: -
dollar sign: $ equals sign: =
percent sign: % slash: /
caret: ^ question mark: ?
ampersand: &
star: *
greater and less than symbols: < >
curled braces: { }
straight braces: [ ]
colon :
period: .
pipe: |
plus sign: +
tilde: ~
comma: ,
accent mark: `
Command Description Mode
show aaa password-policy
mgmt
Use show aaa password-policy mgmt to show the current
management password policy
Enable mode