Command Manual – AAA RADIUS HWTACACS
H3C S7500E Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 AAA/RADIUS/HWTACACS
Configuration Commands
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A local user password is always displayed in cipher text, regardless of the
configuration of the
password
command.
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If you use the
save
command to save the configuration, all existing local user
passwords will still be displayed in cipher text after the device restarts, even if you
restore the display mode to
auto
.
Related commands:
display local-user
,
password
.
Examples
# Specify to display the passwords of all accessing users in cipher text.
[Sysname] local-user password-display-mode cipher-force
1.1.27 password
Syntax
password
{
cipher
|
simple
}
password
undo password
View
Local user view
Parameters
cipher
: Specifies to display the password in cipher text.
simple
: Specifies to display the password in plain text.
password
: Password for the local user.
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In plain text, it must be a string of 1 to 63 characters that contains no blank space,
for example, aabbcc.
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In cipher text, it must be a string of 24 or 88 characters, for example,
_(TT8F]Y\5SQ=^Q`MAF4<1!!.
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With the
simple
keyword, you must specify the password in plain text. With the
cipher
keyword, you can specify the password in either plain or cipher text.
Description
Use the
password
command to configure a password for a local user.
Use the
undo password
command to delete the password of a local user.
Note that:
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With the
local-user password-display-mode
cipher-force
command configured,
the password is always displayed in cipher text, regardless of the configuration of
the
password
command.
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With the
cipher
keyword specified, a password of up to 16 characters in plain text
will be encrypted into a password of 24 characters in cipher text, and a password
