Specifying A Minimum Password Length; Setting Up Local User Accounts - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

If you want to remove the password encryption, you can disable encryption by entering the following
command.
BigIron RX(config)# no service password-encryption
Syntax: [no] service password-encryption

Specifying a minimum password length

By default, the Brocade device imposes no minimum length on the Line (Telnet), Enable, or Local
passwords. You can configure the device to require that Line, Enable, and Local passwords be at
least a specified length.
For example, to specify that the Line, Enable, and Local passwords be at least 8 characters, enter
the following command.
BigIron RX(config)# enable password-min-length 8
Syntax: enable password-min-length <number-of-characters>
The <number-of-characters> can be from 1 – 48.

Setting up local user accounts

You can define up to 16 local user accounts on a device. User accounts regulate who can access
the management functions in the CLI using the following methods:
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Local user accounts provide greater flexibility for controlling management access to the device
than do management privilege level passwords and SNMP community strings of SNMP versions 1
and 2. You can continue to use the privilege level passwords and the SNMP community strings as
additional means of access authentication. Alternatively, you can choose not to use local user
accounts and instead continue to use only the privilege level passwords and SNMP community
strings. Local user accounts are backward-compatible with configuration files that contain privilege
level passwords. Refer to
If you configure local user accounts, you also need to configure an authentication-method list for
Telnet access, Web management access, and SNMP access. Refer to
authentication-method lists"
For each local user account, you specify a user name which can have up to 255 characters. You
also can specify the following parameters:
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BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
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Telnet access
Web Management access
SNMP access
"Setting passwords for management privilege levels"
on page 109.
A password
A management privilege level, which can be one of the following:
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Super User level – Allows complete read-and-write access to the system. This is generally
for system administrators and is the only privilege level that allows you to configure
passwords. This is the default.
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Port Configuration level – Allows read-and-write access for specific ports but not for global
(system-wide) parameters.

Setting up local user accounts

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