D-Link DGS-3620-52P CLI Guide - Page 17

xStack® DGS-3620 Series Layer 3 Managed Stackable Gigabit Switch CLI Reference Guide Restrictions Only Administrator-level users can issue this command. Example To disable password encryption: DGS-3620-28SC:admin#disable password encryption Command: disable password encryption Success. DGS-3620-28SC:admin# 2-4 config account Description When the password information is not specified in the command, the system will prompt the user to input the password interactively. For this case, the user can only input the plain text password. If the password is present in the command, the user can select to input the password in the plain text form or in the encrypted form. The encryption algorithm is based on SHA-1. Format config account {encrypt [plain_text | sha_1] } Parameters - Specify the name of the account. The account must already be defined. encrypt - (Optional) Specify the encryption type, plain_text or sha_1. plain_text - Specify the password in plain text form. For the plain text form, passwords must have a minimum of 0 and a maximum of 15 characters. The password is case-sensitive sha_1 - Specify the password in the SHA-1 encrypted form. For the encrypted form password, the length is fixed to 35 bytes long. The password is case-sensitive. - Specify the password. Restrictions Only Administrator-level users can issue this command. Example To configure the user password of the "dlink" account: DGS-3620-28SC:admin#config account dlink Command: config account dlink Enter a old password:**** Enter a case-sensitive new password:**** Enter the new password again for confirmation:**** 12