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Chapter 5 Configuring Additional Router Features

Creating and Modifying User Accounts and User Groups

DETAILED STEPS

	Command or Action		Purpose
Step 1
	configure		Enters global configuration mode.
	Example:
	RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# configure
Step 2
	username user-name		Creates a name for a new user (or identifies a current user)
			and enters username configuration submode.
	Example:		• The user-nameargument can be only one word. Spaces
	RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config)# username user1		and quotation marks are not allowed.
Step 3
	password {0 7} password		Specifies a password for the user named in Step 2.
	or		• Use the secret command to create a secure login
	secret {0 5} password
			password for the user names specified in Step 2.
	Example:		• Entering 0 following the password command specifies
			that an unencrypted (clear-text) password follows.
	RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-un)# password 0
			Entering 7 following the password command specifies
	pwd1
	or		that an encrypted password follows.
	RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-un)# secret 5 pwd1		• Entering 0 following the secret command specifies that
			a secure unencrypted (clear-text) password follows.
			Entering 5 following the secret command specifies that
			a secure encrypted password follows.
			• Type 0 is the default for the password and secret
			commands.
Step 4
	group group-name		Assigns the user named in Step 2 to a user group.
			• The user takes on all attributes of the user group, as
	Example:		defined by the user group association to various task
	RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-un)# group sysadmin		groups.
			• Each user must be assigned to at least one user group.
			A user may belong to multiple user groups.
Step 5 Repeat Step 4 for each user group to be associated with			—
	the user specified in Step 2.
Step 6
	commit		Saves configuration changes and activates them as part of
			the running configuration.
	Example:
	RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router(config-un)# commit
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