Configuring Username and Password Security

Configuring Local Password Security

Configuring Local Password Security

Menu: Setting Passwords

As noted earlier in this section, usernames are optional. Configuring a user- name requires either the CLI or the web browser interface.

1.From the Main Menu select:

3. Console PasswordsFigure 2-1. The Set Password Screen

2.To set a new password:

a.Select Set Manager Password or Set Operator Password. You will then be prompted with Enter new password.

b.Type a password of up to 16 ASCII characters with no spaces and press [Enter]. (Remember that passwords are case-sensitive.)

c.When prompted with Enter new password again, retype the new pass- word and press [Enter].

After you configure a password, if you subsequently start a new console session, you will be prompted to enter the password. (If you use the CLI or web browser interface to configure an optional username, the switch will prompt you for the username, and then the password.)

To Delete Password Protection (Including Recovery from a Lost

Password): This procedure deletes all usernames (if configured) and passwords (Manager and Operator).

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