Account Guidelines and Limitations

Learn about the guidelines and limitations for creating accounts.

• Extreme recommends that access to the CLI for every user is through a unique account: After logging in as admin, create a unique account for yourself, specifying role admin.
• You cannot modify rules for the admin or the user predefined accounts.
• You cannot modify rules for the admin or the user default roles.
• By default, all account information is stored in the device-local user database.
• By default, user authentication and tracking of logins to the device is local.
• The maximum number of accounts—including the predefined accounts—is 64. If you need more than 64 user accounts, configure remote server authentication (for more information, see the Remote Server Authentication section.
• The maximum number of TACACS+ servers is 5.
• The maximum number of simultaneous active SSH sessions is 32.