Username - Cisco Nexus 5500 Series Command Reference Manual

username

username
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
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password
role role-name
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username user-id [expire date] [password {0 | 5} password] [role role-name] [priv-lvl level]
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.
Note
(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.
Specifies that the password that follows should be in clear text. This is the
default mode.
Specifies that the password that follows should be encrypted.
Password for the user (clear text). The password can be a maximum of 64
characters.
Note
(Optional) Specifies the role which the user is to be assigned to. Valid values
are as follows:
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The Cisco NX-OS software does not allowed the "#" and "@"
characters in the user-id argument text string.
Clear text passwords cannot contain dollar signs ($) or spaces
anywhere in the password. Also, they cannot include these special
characters at the beginning of the password: quotation marks (" or '),
vertical bars (|), or right angle brackets (>).
default-role—User role
network-admin—System configured role
network-operator—System configured role
priv-0—Privilege role
priv-1—Privilege role
priv-2—Privilege role
priv-3—Privilege role
priv-4—Privilege role
priv-5—Privilege role
priv-6—Privilege role
priv-7—Privilege role
priv-8—Privilege role
priv-9—Privilege role
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