Specifying a minimum password length, Setting up local user accounts – Brocade Virtual ADX Administration Guide (Supporting ADX v03.1.00) User Manual
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Specifying a minimum password length
By default, the Brocade Virtual ADX 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.
Virtual ADX(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 Brocade Virtual ADX. User accounts regulate who
can access the management functions in the CLI using the following methods:
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Telnet access
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Web management access
•
SNMP access
Local user accounts provide greater flexibility for controlling management access to Brocade
Virtual ADX devices 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
“Setting passwords for management privilege
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
For each local user account, you specify a user name. You also can specify the following
parameters:
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A password.
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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.
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Read Only level – Allows access to the Privileged EXEC mode and CONFIG mode but only
with read access.