System Management Guide Security
Edition: 01 3HE 11018 AAAC TQZZA 131
password
Syntax password [password]
Context config>system>security>user
Description This command configures the user password for console and FTP access.
The password is stored in an encrypted format in the configuration file when specified.
Passwords must be encased in double quotes (" ") at the time of the password creation if they
contain any special characters. The double quote character (") is not accepted inside a
password. It is interpreted as the start or stop delimiter of a string.
For example:
config>system>security# user testuser1
config>system>security>user$ password "$2y$10$siOU8NvWRzFFtJjO5wA1I.7mr.57emDXUC14p6
EZtO.pmr0aqLWSa"
config>system>security>user# exit
config>system>security# info
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...
user "testuser1"
password "$2y$10$siOU8NvWRzFFtJjO5wA1I.7mr.57emDXUC14p6EZtO.pmr0aqL
Sa"
exit
...
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config>system>security#
Parameters password — the password for the user that must be entered by this user during the login
procedure. The minimum length of the password is determined by the
minimum-length command. The maximum length of the password is 56 characters
in plain text. The complexity requirements for the password are determined by the
complexity-rules command.
Passwords that contain special characters (#, $, spaces, etc.) must be enclosed
within double quotes.
For example: config>system>security>user# password “south#bay?”
The question mark character (?) cannot be directly inserted as input during a Telnet
connection because the character is bound to the help command during a normal
Telnet/console connection.
To insert # or ? characters, they must be entered inside a notepad or clipboard
program and then cut and pasted into the Telnet session in the password field that is
encased in the double quotes as delimiters for the password.
If a password is entered without any parameters, a password length of zero is implied
(return key).
Note: In Release 7.0 and later, the hash and hash2 parameters are not supported.
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