Multiple CLI Users for Each Role

Table 1. Multiple CLI Users product support
Feature	Product	Release introduced
Multiple CLI users per role	5320 Series	Fabric Engine 8.6
	5420 Series	VOSS 8.4
	5520 Series	VOSS 8.2.5
	5720 Series	Fabric Engine 8.7
	7520 Series	Fabric Engine 8.10
	7720 Series	Fabric Engine 8.10
	VSP 4900 Series	VOSS 8.1
	VSP 7400 Series	VOSS 8.0

You can create up to a maximum of 10 CLI users for each role, which includes:

3 default users (rwa, rw, and ro)—User Type = default
7 user defined users (rwa or rw or ro)—User Type = userDefined

User names for default users (rwa, rw, and ro) can be changed; however, user names for user defined users cannot be changed. User names support the following character types:

alphanumeric
hyphen (-)
underscore ( _ )

Users require a user name and password to connect to the switch. Users can log on through the local serial port, Telnet, SSH, or ftp. When a user is created, authentication is enabled, by default.

For security reasons, if a login attempt fails, the error feedback does not indicate if the failed login is due to an invalid user name or an invalid password. Response times for invalid user name and invalid user name and password pair are identical to prevent identification of which of the two failed.

Note

Multiple CLI users for each role does not apply in enhanced secure mode.