Creating Or Updating Users - Cisco DS-X9530-SF1-K9 - Supervisor-1 Module - Control Processor Configuration Manual

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Configuring Users and Common Roles

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The following are examples of strong passwords:

Clear text passwords can only contain alphanumeric characters. Special characters, such as the dollar

sign ($) or the percent sign (%) are not allowed.

Creating or Updating Users

The passphrase specified in the snmp-server user option and the password specified username option

are synchronized (see the

By default, the user account does not expire unless you explicitly configure it to expire. The expire

option determines the date on which the user account is disabled. The date is specified in the

YYYY-MM-DD format.

The following words are reserved and cannot be used to configure users: bin, daemon, adm, lp, sync,

shutdown, halt, mail, news, uucp, operator, games, gopher, ftp, nobody, nscd, mailnull, rpc, rpcuser, xfs,

gdm, mtsuser, ftpuser, man, and sys.

User passwords are not displayed in the switch configuration file.

If a password is trivial (short, easy-to-decipher), your password configuration is rejected. Be sure to

configure a strong password as shown in the sample configuration. Passwords are case-sensitive.

"admin" is no longer the default password for any Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch. You must explicitly

configure a strong password.

Cisco MDS SAN-OS does not support all numeric usernames, whether created with TACACS+ or

RADIUS, or created locally. Local users with all numeric names cannot be created. If an all numeric

username exists on an AAA server and is entered during login, the user is not logged in.

To issue commands with the internal keyword for troubleshooting purposes, you must have an account

that is a member of the network-admin group.

OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x

Does not contain proper names

Contains both upper and lower case characters

Contains numbers

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Configuring User Accounts

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Configuration Guide