Brocade Communications Systems Brocade ICX 6650 6650 Manuel D’Utilisation

Local user accounts

For example, to specify that the Line, Enable, and Local passwords be at least 8 characters, enter 
the following command.

Brocade(config)# enable password-min-length 8

Syntax: enable password-min-length number-of-characters

The number-of-characters can be from 1–48.

Local user accounts

You can define up to 16 local user accounts on a Brocade device. User accounts regulate who can 
access the management functions in the CLI using the following methods:

•

Telnet access

•

SNMP access

Local user accounts provide greater flexibility for controlling management access to Brocade 
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 

page 14.

If you configure local user accounts, you also need to configure an authentication-method list for 
Telnet access and SNMP access. Refer to 

 on page 58.

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:

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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.

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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

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.