Account Guidelines and Limitations

Following are the guidelines and limitations for creating user accounts:

• Creating separate user accounts for each user is recommended.
• Rules for the admin or default accounts and roles cannot be modified.
• 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 Remote Server Authentication.
• The maximum number of TACACS+ servers is 5.
• The maximum number of simultaneous active SSH sessions is 32.