Introduction Password Recovery
Software Reference for SwitchBlade x3100 Series Switches (Setting Up the Switch)
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ADD USER PASSWORD (SEC)
Syntax
ADD USER=login-name PASSWORD=password [ FORMAT={ CLEARTEXT | MD5 }
] [ DESCRIPTION=description ] [ PRIVILEGE={ USER | MANAGER | SECU-
RITYOFFICER } ] [ LOGIN={ TRUE | FALSE | ON | OFF | YES | NO } ] [
TELNET={ YES | NO } ] [ SSH={ YES | NO } [ PUBLICKEY=key-name ] ] [
PWDAGEING={ OFF | 0 | 1..365 } ] [ DEACTIVATE={ OFF | yyyy-mm-dd }
]
Description Used to add new user accounts to the system. At a minimum, a user login name and
password must be specified. The password can be clear text (non-encrypted) or in the
form of a 32-character MD5 encrypted string. Unless the FORMAT option is specified,
the password value is assumed to be clear text.
Options The following table gives the range of values for each option that can be specified with
this command and a default value (if applicable).
Option Description Default Value
USER Identifies the name of the account to change. It is a char-
acter string, 1 to 32 characters in length. Valid charac-
ters are uppercase letters (A-Z), lowercase letters (a-z),
and decimal digits (0-9). The string may not contain
spaces. The login name is case insensitive.
PASSWORD The password can be clear text (non-encrypted) or in
the form of a 32-character MD5 encrypted string.
FORMAT Format of the password
CLEARTEXT - Non-encrypted text
MD5 - Pre-encrypted as a 32 character MD5 digest.
CLEARTEXT
DESCRIP-
TION
Descriptive text for the user
PRIVILEGE One of the three levels. Refer to 1.5.1.USER
LOGIN Specifies whether or not the account is accessed via
direct login or not.
YES - The account can be used immediately after it is
created.
NO, FALSE, or OFF - the account cannot be used to
access the system.
YES