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1154 PowerConnect B-Series FCX Configuration Guide
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Setting up local user accounts
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PowerConnect(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 Dell PowerConnect device. User accounts
regulate who can access the management functions in the CLI using the following methods:
• Telnet access
• Web management access
• SNMP access
Local user accounts provide greater flexibility for controlling management access to Dell
PowerConnect 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 levels” on page 1150.
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 “Configuring
authentication-method lists” on page 1198.
For each local user account, you specify a user name. You also can specify the following
parameters:
• A password
• A management privilege level, which can be one of the following:
• Super User level (default) – 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.
• Port Configuration level – Allows read-and-write access for specific ports but not for global
parameters.
• Read Only level – Allows access to the Privileged EXEC mode and User EXEC mode with
read access only.
• You can set additional username and password rules. Refer to “Enhancements to username
and password”.
Enhancements to username and password
This section describes the enhancements to the username and password features introduced in
earlier releases.
The following rules are enabled by default:
• Users are required to accept the message of the day.