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Enter a 5 then a text string as the hidden password. The text string must be a
password that was already encrypted by a Dell Networking router.
Use this parameter only with a password that you copied from the show
running-config file of another Dell Networking router.
password Enter a text string, up to 32 characters long, as the clear text password.
Defaults No password is configured. level = 15.
Command Modes CONFIGURATION
Command
History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the C9010.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
8.3.19.0 Introduced on the S4820T.
8.3.11.1 Introduced on the Z9000.
8.3.7.0 Introduced on the S4810.
7.6.1.0 Introduced on the S-Series.
7.5.1.0 Introduced on the C-Series.
6.1.1.0 Introduced on the E-Series.
Usage
Information
To control access to command modes, use this command to define a password for a level and use the
privilege level (CONFIGURATION mode) command.
Passwords must meet the following criteria:
● Start with a letter, not a number.
● Passwords can have a regular expression as the password. To create a password with a regular
expression in it, use CNTL + v prior to entering regular expression. For example, to create the
password abcd]e, you type “abcd CNTL v ]e”. When the password is created, you do not use the
CNTL + v key combination and enter “abcd]e”.
NOTE: The question mark (?) and the tilde (~) are not supported characters.
Related
Commands
show running-config — views the current configuration.
privilege level (CONFIGURATION mode) — controls access to the command modes within the switch.
login authentication
To designate the terminal lines, apply an authentication method list.
C9000 Series
Syntax
login authentication {method-list-name | default}
To use the local user/password database for login authentication, use the no login
authentication command.
Parameters
method-list-
name
Enter the keywords method-list-name to specify that method list, created in
the aaa authentication login command, to be applied to the designated
terminal line.
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