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Chapter 11: Basic Commands Command List
config account
Description
When the password information is not specified in the command, the system will prompt the user to
input the password interactively. For this case, the user can only input the plain text password.
If the password is present in the command, the user can select to input the password in the plain text
form or in the encrypted form. The encryption algorithm is based on SHA-I.
Format
config account <username> {encrypt [plain_text | sha_1] <password>}
Parameters
account - Name of the account. The account must already be defined.
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<username> - Enter the user name for the account used here.
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encrypt - (Optional) Specifies that the password will be encrypted.
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plain_text - Select to specify the password in plain text form.
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sha_1 - Select to specify the password in the SHA-I encrypted form.
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<password> - The password for the user account. The length for of password in plain-text
form and in encrypted form are different. For the plain-text form, passwords must have a
minimum of 0 character and can have a maximum of 15 characters. For the encrypted form
password, the length is fixed to 35 bytes long. The password is case-sensitive.
Restrictions
Only Administrator-level users can issue this command.
Example
To configure the user password of "us3r" account:
EAS 200-24p:admin# config account us3r
Command: config account us3r
Enter a old password:****
Enter a case-sensitive new password:****
Enter the new password again for confirmation:****
Success.
EAS 200-24p:admin#
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