Specifications

password
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Response messages
Table 5-1 List of response messages for the password command
Message Description
Mismatch; try again. The new password and the re-entered password are not
the same. Re-enter both passwords.
Password unchanged. The password change was canceled.
Password: Permission denied. The password change is not allowed.
Please don't use an all-lower case password.
Unusual capitalization, control characters or digits
are suggested.
We recommend that upper-case alphabetic characters,
symbols, or numbers be used in addition to lower-case
alphabetic characters.
Please enter a longer password. We recommend that the password have from 6 to 16
characters.
Notes
 When a password is changed in administrator mode, the old password is not
displayed. Start the procedure by entering the new password at the prompt (
New
password:
).
 We recommend that you use at least six characters for a password. If fewer than six
characters are entered, an error is displayed. Note, however, that if you re-enter the
same password, it will be accepted. Also, the maximum number of characters that
can be used for a password is 16. If 17 or more characters are entered, only the first
16 characters are registered as the password. We recommend that you use
upper-case alphabetic characters, numbers, and symbols in addition to lower-case
alphabetic characters. If a password consists of only lower-case alphabetic
characters, an error is displayed. Note, however, that if you re-enter the same
password, it will be accepted.