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3. Add a password for that user:
hostname cli>
userpassword username
By default, new accounts are created with read-only permission. Permission levels
can be changed using the userperm command; refer to
page 38
for more information about permissions and the userperm command.
Username Restrictions
The username field has a maximum length of 16 characters; it must contain at least
one lowercase alphabetic character, and the first character must be alphabetic.
Valid characters for username include:
Alphabetic characters
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Numeric characters
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Period (.)
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Underscore (_)
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Hyphen (-)
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Password Restrictions
Passwords have the following restrictions:
They must contain at least six characters but not more than eight characters (only
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the first eight characters are considered if the password is longer than eight
characters).
They must contain at least two alphabetic characters and at least one numeric or
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special character. Alphabetic characters can be both uppercase and lowercase;
special characters include printable characters, such as ! @ # $ % ^ & and *.
They must differ from the user's login name and any reverse or circular shift of
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that login name; for comparison purposes, uppercase and lowercase letters are
equivalent.
The new password must differ from the old by at least three characters; for
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comparison purposes, uppercase and lowercase letters are equivalent.
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