Cannot change password on CBS250 switch

[nahk]

Hey,

I simply cannot change a password on the CBS250-8T-D in my lab. No matter what password I try (I tried a bunch ranging between 10 and 14 characters), I'm always getting

Password rejected - Passwords must not match words in the dictionary, and must not contain commonly used passwords.

Complexity settings are configured pretty liberal - max length=8, min-classes=3, no-repeat=3, and of course all the passwords I tried satisfy these requirements.

Given that it's a lab, I tried to disable the complexity requirements altogether by running

no passwords complexity enable

command, as suggested by this article, but it returns

% Unrecognized command

and nothing changes.

I'm running latest FW (3.2.0.84), which I just updated to recently. I'm now wondering, if it's a bug in the new FW, as I was always able to change passwords with the old FW (3.1.1.7).

Anybody else experiencing these issues?

Thanks,
Alex.

[FM1986FM]

Your password starts with 'Tower,' which is listed in the GitHub password list...

Lol, yeah, that doesn’t make much sense!

[FM1986FM]

As of CBS version 3.5, the rules for comparison were narrowed as follows:
1. The new password does not match and does not begin with a word included in the list (removed the
“contained” requirement).
2. The word in the list appears in the password in any case (lower or uppercase) combination.
All the other requirements were dropped.

Still not good CISCO....

"does not begin with a word included in the list" makes no sense! a password like 123Tryt0H4ckM3!!FdF##123 wouldn't be accepted...

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