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Chapter 12 Command Line Interface Reference
username password
username password
To build a local user name database for use with the local method of AAA authentication services, use
the username password command. Use the no form of this command to delete the specified user name.
username user-name password password-string
no username user-name
Syntax Description
Defaults None.
Command Modes Administrator.
Command History
Usage Guidelines Use the username password command to build the local username database. The AAA authentication
service, local-case, performs a case-sensitive user name match; the local service user name match is not
case-sensitive. Both local and local-case use case-sensitive password matching for authentication.
Use the aaa authentication iscsi or aaa authentication login command to configure the an
authentication list to use local or local-case authentication services.
To display the contents of the local username database, issue the show aaa command.
The following rules apply to passwords:
Passwords are entered in clear text. However, they are changed to “XXXXX” in the CLI command
history cache, and are stored in the local username database in an encrypted format.
If the password contains embedded spaces, enclose it with single or double quotes.
After initial entry, passwords display in their encrypted format. Use the show aaa command to
display the local username database entries. The following is an example display:
username "foo" password "9 ea9bb0c57ca4806d3555f3f78a4204177a"
The initial “9” in the example display indicates that the password is encrypted.
user-name A valid user name. Enter a maximum of 63 characters.
password-string The password associated with the specified user name. If the password is
encrypted (starts with “9”), enter a maximum of 170 characters. If the
password is unencrypted (starts with “0”), enter a maximum of 66
characters. If the password is entered as an unencrypted text string, enter a
maximum of 64 characters.
Release Modification
3.2.1 This command was introduced.