Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6850-48 Cli Reference Manual page 2585

AAA Commands
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Note that the exclamation point (!) is not a valid password character. In addition, specifying an aster-
isk (*) as one or more characters in a password is allowed as long as every character is not an asterisk.
For example, password **123456** is allowed; password ******** is not allowed.
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The password expiration date will display in an ASCII text file produced via the snapshot command.
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A password expiration for the user's current password may be configured with the expiration option.
However, if the password is changed, or the global password expiration setting is configured with the
user password-expiration
global expiration setting.
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When modifying a user's SNMP access, the user password must be re-entered (or a new one config-
ured). This is required because the hash algorithm used to save the password in the switch depends on
the SNMP authentication level.
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At initial startup, the default user on the switch is admin with a password of switch. The switch will
not recreate this user at any successive startup as long as there exists at least one user defined with
write access to all commands. (Note that if password expiration is configured for the admin user, or
configured globally through the
word expires, the admin user will have access only through the console port.)
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Either privileges or an end-user profile may be associated with a user; both cannot be configured for
the same user.
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New users or updated user settings are saved automatically; that is, these settings do not require the
write memory or
Possible values for domains and families are listed in the table here:
Domain
domain-admin
domain-system
domain-physical
domain-network
domain-layer2
domain-service
domain-policy
domain-security
Examples
-> user techpubs password writer read-only config
-> no user techpubs
Release History
Release 6.1; command was introduced.
Release 6.4.3; Console-only paramater was added.
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command, the user's password expiration will be configured with the
user password-expiration
configuration snapshot
Corresponding Families
file telnet dshell debug
system aip snmp rmon webmgt config
chassis module interface pmm health
ip rip ospf bgp vrrp ip-routing ipmr ipms
vlan bridge stp 802.1q linkagg ip-helper
dns
qos policy slb
session avlan aaa
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command, when the admin user's pass-
command to save user settings over a reboot.
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