Brocade Communications Systems 6650 manual Local user accounts with no passwords

Local user accounts

NOTE

You must grant Super User level privilege to at least one account before you add accounts with other privilege levels. You need the Super User account to make further administrative changes.

Local user accounts with no passwords

To create a user account without a password, enter the following command at the global CONFIG level of the CLI.

Brocade(config)# username wonka nopassword

Syntax: [no] username user-stringprivilege privilege-levelnopassword

Local user accounts with unencrypted passwords

If you want to use unencrypted passwords for local user accounts, enter a command such as the following at the global CONFIG level of the CLI.

Brocade(config)# username wonka password willy

If password masking is enabled, press the [Enter] key before entering the password.

Brocade(config)# username wonka

Enter Password: willy

The above commands add a local user account with the user name “wonka” and the password “willy”. This account has the Super User privilege level; this user has full access to all configuration and display features.

Brocade(config)# username waldo privilege 5 password whereis

This command adds a user account for user name “waldo”, password “whereis”, with the Read Only privilege level. Waldo can look for information but cannot make configuration changes.

Syntax: [no] username user-stringprivilege privilege-levelpassword nopassword password-string

You can enter up to 48 characters for user-string.

The privilege privilege-levelparameter specifies the privilege level for the account. You can specify one of the following:

•0 – Super User level (full read-write access)

•4 – Port Configuration level

•5 – Read Only level

The default privilege level is 0. If you want to assign Super User level access to the account, you can enter the command without privilege 0, as shown in the command example above.

The password nopassword parameter indicates whether the user must enter a password. If you specify password, enter the string for the user's password. You can enter up to 48 characters for password-string. If strict password enforcement is enabled on the device, you must enter a minimum of eight characters containing the following combinations:

•At least two upper case characters

•At least two lower case characters

•At least two numeric characters

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