Brocade Communications Systems 6650 manual Creating a password option, Syntax show users

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-encryptioncommand after creating the local user account with a username user-string[privilege privilege-level] password 0 command

•Using the username user-stringcreate-password command

NOTE

To create an encrypted all-numeric password, use the username user-stringcreate-passwordcommand.

If you create a local user account using the commands discussed in “Local user accounts with unencrypted passwords” on page 22, you can issue the service password-encryptioncommand 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-passwordoption 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 enter.

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 characters 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.

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