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5520 HW version Question

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mucca

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Dec 21, 2006
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Afternoon,

I am just wondering if you could please answer the following question

I have 2 x ERS Nortel 5520 switches. One which is HW:04 and one which is HW:32.

They are running the same FW: 5.0.0.3 and SW:v5.0.8.035

But when enabling the Telnet write access through the console port access on the older HW version 04 it is asking for 10 character password with an upper case and symbol. But on the HW version 32 it will accept any password with no upper case letters or numbers.

Why on an older Hardware Revision is the more complex password set ? And can you turn this back to a simple password using the CLI ?

Regards
Mucca
 
Someplace in the CLI there is a password security option, the default setting changed (several times) in the 5.0.x code branch.
 
I should have been more specific: For me the password security option seemed to vary between switches depending on what version of code the HW was originally shipped with, even if I upgraded code later. But you can change it so we made setting that option part of the 'default' config we load on every switch.
 
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