Command Line Reference Guide

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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, you must use CNTL + v prior to entering regular expression. For example, to
create the password
abcd]e, you type abcd CNTL v]e and when the password is created, you
do not use the CNTL + v key combination and enter
abcd]e.
Related
Commands
login authentication
c e s
Apply an authentication method list to designated terminal lines.
Syntax
login authentication {method-list-name | default}
To use the local user/password database for login authentication, enter no login authentication.
Parameters
Defaults
No authentication is performed on the console lines, and local authentication is performed on the
virtual terminal and auxiliary lines.
Command Modes
LINE
Command
History
Usage
Information
If you configure the aaa authentication login default command, then the login authentication default
command automatically is applied to all terminal lines.
Related
Commands
password
c e s
Specify a password for users on terminal lines.
Syntax
password [encryption-type] password
To delete a password, use the no password password command.
Note: The question mark (?) and the tilde (~) are not supported characters.
show running-config View the current configuration.
privilege level (CONFIGURATION mode) Control access to command modes within the E-Series.
method-list-name Enter the method-list-name to specify that method list, created in the aaa
authentication login command, to be applied to the designated terminal line.
default
Enter the keyword
default to specify that the default method list, created in the
aaa authentication login command, is applied to the terminal line.
Version 8.3.3.1 Introduced on S60
Version 7.6.1.0 Introduced for S-Series
Version 7.5.1.0 Introduced for C-Series
pre-Version 6.2.1.0 Introduced on E-Series
aaa authentication login Select login authentication methods.