Dell PowerConnect Brocade M6505 Brocade 7.1.0 Web Tools Administrator's Guide - Page 196

15 User-defined accounts You can change the description only on user-level accounts. You cannot change the description of the default accounts. You cannot change the description of your own account. 7. Click Enabled or Disabled to enable or disable the account. You can enable and disable user- and admin-level accounts, but not your own account. You cannot enable or disable your own account or the factory account. Only the root account can disable itself. If you disable an account, all active CLI sessions for that account are logged out. The All button is disabled unless the following conditions are met: • The selected role for the target user must be admin or securityadmin. • You must be a physical fabric administrator. Selecting All makes the target user account a physical fabric administrator. 8. Click OK and click Apply to apply your changes. Maintaining passwords When a password expires, the next time that user logs in, Web Tools requires the user to provide a new password. NOTE You have to own the switch in order to modify password rules. A password becomes locked if a user has exceeded the maximum number of failed login attempts. This number is specified in the Lockout Threshold field. To unlock a locked password, refer to the unlock procedure in "Unlocking a password" on page 170. Changing the password of an account If you are logged in as admin, you can change the password of your own account, peer admin accounts, switchadmin accounts, and user accounts. You can also change the root or factory account passwords. If you are changing the password of an admin account, you must also provide the current password. You do not need to provide the current password if you are changing the password of a lower-level user account. Passwords can be from 8 through 40 characters long. They must begin with an alphabetic or numeric character. They can include alphanumeric characters, the dot (.), and the underscore (_). They are case-sensitive. Passwords must also meet any additional password rules that were set up. (Refer to "Setting the rules for passwords" on page 169 for more information.) To change the password of an account, perform the following steps. 1. Open the Switch Administration window as described in "Opening the Switch Administration window" on page 31. 2. Select the User tab. 3. Select the account to modify. If you are logged in as a switchadmin, you can only change the password of your own account. 4. Click Change Password. 168 Web Tools Administrator's Guide 53-1002756-01