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Telnet Commands
passwd
Change system login name and password.
Syntax passwd [-o] ["user"]
Availability All users
Description Use this command to change the system passwords. The login names
cannot be modified in v4.0.
To change the password for a specific user, enter the command with
the optional "user" operand.
The password must have 6 to 8 characters. If more than 8 characters
are entered, only the first 8 characters are used for password
validation at user login.
The new password must fulfill these rules:
◆Must not be the same as the previous password;
◆Must not match either the username or any word of the realname,
either in normal or in reverse order, or at the beginning or at the
end.
◆Must contain characters out of at least two of the following
classes: upper and lower case letters, digits, or nonalphanumeric
characters.
The currently logged in user can change the passwords for their own
security level, and any security level below. The hierarchy of user
login levels is as follows:
1. root
2. factory
3. admin
4. user