Brocade Communications Systems 6650 Creating a password option

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Local user accounts
•At least two special characters
NOTE
You must be logged on with Super User access (privilege level 0) to add user accounts or configure
other access parameters.
To display user account information, enter the following command.
Brocade# show users
Syntax: show users
Local accounts with encrypted passwords
You can create local user accounts with MD5 encrypted passwords using one of the following
methods:
•Issuing the service password-encryption command after creating the local user account with a
username user-string [privilege privilege-level] password 0 command
•Using the username user-string create-password command
NOTE
To create an encrypted all-numeric password, use the username user-string create-password
command.
If you create a local user account using the commands discussed in “Local user accounts with
unencrypted passwords” on page22, you can issue the service password-encryption command to
encrypt all passwords that have been previously entered.
Example
Brocade(config)# username wonka privilege 5 password willy
Brocade(config)# service password-encryption
Creating a password option
As an alternative to the commands above, the create-password option allows you to create an
encrypted password in one line of command. Also, this new option allows you to create an
all-numeric, encrypted password.
You can ente r.
Brocade(config)# username wonka privilege 5 create-password willy
Syntax: [no] username user-string [privilege privilege-level] create-password password-string
You can enter up to 48 character s for user-string. This string can be alphanumeric or all-numeric.
The privilege parameter 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
Enter up to 255 alphanumeric characters for password-string.