Managing Switch User Accounts

Creating a User

 

 

 

 

4Enter the password again.

-> password

enter old password:******** enter new password: *********

reenter new password: *********

->

The password is now reset for the current user. At the next switch login, the user must enter the new pass- word.

Note. A new password cannot be identical to the current password; it cannot be identical to any of the three passwords that preceded the current password.

Setting a Minimum Password Size

The default minimum password length (or size) is 8 characters. To configure a minimum password size, enter the user password-size min command. For example:

-> user password-size min 10

The minimum length for any passwords configured for users is now 10 characters.

Note that the maximum password length is 47 characters.

Configuring Password Expiration

By default, password expiration is disabled on the switch. A global default password expiration may be specified for all users or password expiration may be set for an individual user.

Note. When the current user’s password has less than one week before expiration, the switch will display an expiration warning after login.

If a user’s password expires, the user will be unable to log into the switch through any interface; the admin user must reset the user’s password. If the admin user’s password expires, the admin user will have access to the switch through the console port with the currently configured password.

Default Password Expiration

To set password expiration globally, use the user password-expirationcommand with the desired number of days; the allowable range is 1 to 150 days. For example:

-> user password-expiration 3

The default password expiration is now set to three days. All user passwords on the switch will be set or reset with the three-day expiration. If an individual user was configured with a different expiration through the user command, the expiration will be reset to the global value.

The expiration is based on the switch system date/time and date/time the user password-expirationcommand is entered. For example, if a user is configured with a password expiration of 10 days, but the global setting is 20 days, that user’s password will expire in 10 days.

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