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Usage guidelines
Valid characters for a local user password are from the following four types:
•
Uppercase letters A to Z.
•
Lowercase letters a to z.
•
Digits 0 to 9.
•
Special characters in
Table 26 Special characters
Character name
Symbol
Character name
Symbol
Ampersand sign
&
Apostrophe
'
Asterisk *
At
sign
@
Back quote
`
Back slash
\
Blank space
N/A
Caret
^
Colon :
Comma
,
Dollar sign
$
Dot
.
Equal sign
=
Exclamation point
!
Left angle bracket
<
Left brace
{
Left bracket
[
Left parenthesis
(
Minus sign
-
Percent sign
%
Plus sign
+
Pound sign
#
Quotation marks
"
Right angle bracket
>
Right brace
}
Right bracket
]
Right parenthesis
)
Semi-colon
;
Slash
/
Tilde
~
Underscore _
Vertical
bar
|
A local user password configured in interactive mode must meet the password control requirement.
For example, if the minimum password length is set to 8, the password must contain at least eight
characters.
Examples
# Set a password for local user
test
in interactive mode.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] local-user test
[Sysname-luser-test] password
Password:**********
Confirm :**********
Updating user(s) information, please wait....
