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Chapter 4 Command-Line Reference 4-29
Example
4.3.3.2 username
Use this command to add named users, require authentication at login, specify or
change a user's password (or specify that no password is required), or specify or
change a user's access level. Use the no form to remove a user name.
Syntax
username name {access-level level | nopassword | password {0 | 7}
password}
no username name
■ name – The name of the user.
(Maximum length: 8 characters; maximum number of users: 5)
■ access-level level – Specifies the user level.
The device has two predefined privilege levels: 0: Normal Exec, 15: Privileged
Exec. (Levels 1-14 are not used.)
■ nopassword – No password is required for this user to log in.
{0 | 7}–0 means input plain password, 7 means input encrypted password.
■ password password – The authentication password for the user.
(Maximum length: 8 characters plain text, 32 encrypted, case sensitive)
Default Setting
■ The default access level is Normal Exec.
■ The default passwords are guest in Normal Exec mode, and admin in
Privileged Exec mode.
Factory defaults for the user names and passwords are:
Console(config)#hostname Server_Chassis_35
Console(config)#
TABLE 4-7 Default User Names and Passwords
username access-level password
guest
admin
0
15
guest
admin