Brocade Communications Systems 6650 Local user accounts, Enhancements to username and password

Local user accounts

For example, to specify that the Line, Enable, and Local passwords be at least 8 characters, enter the following command.

Brocade(config)# enable password-min-length 8

Syntax: enable password-min-length number-of-characters

The number-of-characterscan be from 1–48.

Local user accounts

You can define up to 16 local user accounts on a Brocade device. User accounts regulate who can access the management functions in the CLI using the following methods:

•Telnet access

•SNMP access

Local user accounts provide greater flexibility for controlling management access to Brocade devices than do management privilege level passwords and SNMP community strings of SNMP versions 1 and 2. You can continue to use the privilege level passwords and the SNMP community strings as additional means of access authentication. Alternatively, you can choose not to use local user accounts and instead continue to use only the privilege level passwords and SNMP community strings. Local user accounts are backward-compatible with configuration files that contain privilege level passwords. Refer to “Setting passwords for management privilege levels” on page 14.

If you configure local user accounts, you also need to configure an authentication-method list for Telnet access and SNMP access. Refer to “Authentication-method lists” on page 58.

For each local user account, you specify a user name. You also can specify the following parameters:

•A password

•A management privilege level, which can be one of the following:

-Super User level (default) – Allows complete read-and-write access to the system. This is generally for system administrators and is the only privilege level that allows you to configure passwords.

-Port Configuration level – Allows read-and-write access for specific ports but not for global parameters.

-Read Only level – Allows access to the Privileged EXEC mode and User EXEC mode with read access only.

•You can set additional username and password rules. Refer to “Enhancements to username and password”.

Enhancements to username and password

This section describes the enhancements to the username and password features introduced in earlier releases.

The following rules are enabled by default:

•Users are required to accept the message of the day.

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