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Chapter 6 Security Commands
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To create and configure a user account, use the username command. To remove a user account, use the
no form of this command.
Syntax Description user-id
expire date
password password
role role-name
sshkey
key
filename filename
Command Default No expiration date, password, or SSH key.
Command Modes Configuration mode
Command History Release
4.0(0)N1(1a)
Usage Guidelines The switch accepts only strong passwords. The characteristics of a strong password include the
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If you do not specify a password for the user account, the user might not be able to log in to the account.
Caution
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username user-id [expire date] [password password] [role role-name]
username user-id sshkey {key | filename filename}
no username user-id
User identifier for the user account. The user-id argument is a case-sensitive,
alphanumeric character string with a maximum length of 28 characters.
(Optional) Specifies the expire date for the user account. The format for the
date argument is YYYY-MM-DD.
(Optional) Specifies a password for the account. The default is no password.
(Optional) Specifies the role which the user is to be assigned to.
(Optional) Specifies an SSH key for the user account.
SSH key string.
Specifies the name of a file that contains the SSH key string.
Modification
This command was introduced.
At least eight characters long
Does not contain many consecutive characters (such as "abcd")
Does not contain many repeating characters (such as "aaabbb")
Does not contain dictionary words
Does not contain proper names
Contains both uppercase and lowercase characters
Contains numbers
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