Maintaining Passwords - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Administrator's Manual

8. Check the available Admin Domains that the user can access.
9. Select a home domain for the user from the Home AD menu.
10. Click OK and click Apply to apply your changes.

Maintaining passwords

When you expire a password, the next time that user logs in, Web Tools requires the user to provide
a new password.
NOTE
You have to own the switch in order to modify password rules.
A password becomes locked if a user has exceeded the maximum number of failed login attempts.
This number is specified in the Lockout Threshold field. To unlock a locked password, refer to the
unlock procedure in
Changing the password of an account
If you are logged in as admin, you can change the password of your own account, peer admin
accounts, switchadmin accounts, and user accounts. You can also change the root or factory
account passwords.
If you are changing the password of an admin account, you must also provide the current
password. You do not need to provide the current password if you are changing the password of a
lower-level user account.
Passwords can be from 8 through 40 characters long. They must begin with an alphabetic or
numeric character. They can include alphanumeric characters, the dot (.), and the underscore
(_). They are case-sensitive.
Passwords must also meet any additional password rules that were set up. (Refer to
rules for passwords"
Use the following procedure to change the password of an account.
1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in
2. Select the User tab.
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Only Admin Domains that have already been created and are accessible to you display. If all
the Admin Domains in the list are inactive then you cannot log in to the switch.
NOTE
The All option does not mean all of the listed Admin Domains; it means all Admin Domains
from AD0 through AD255, regardless of whether they were already created.
The All button is disabled unless the following conditions are met:
•
The selected role for the target user must be admin or securityadmin.
•
You must be a physical fabric administrator.
Selecting All makes the target user account a physical fabric administrator.
If AD0 is deselected in the user's Admin Domain list and no other Admin Domains are selected,
the next available Admin Domain becomes the user's default home Admin Domain.
"Unlocking a password"
on page 214 for more information.)
window" on page 35.
User-defined accounts
on page 215.
"Opening the Switch Administration
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"Setting the
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