3Com WX4400 3CRWX440095A manual 3WXM Enable Password, WX1200# set authentication console * local

First-Time Configuration via the Console 57

3WXM Enable Password

If you use 3WXM to continue configuring the switch, you will need to enter the switch’s enable password when you upload the switch’s configuration into 3WXM. (For 3WXM information, see the Wireless Switch Manager Reference Manual.)

Authenticating at the You can configure the console so that authentication is required, or so Console that no authentication is required. 3Com recommends that you enforce

authentication on the console port.

To enforce console authentication, take the following steps:

1Add a user in the local database by typing the following command with a username and password:

WX1200# set user username password password success: change accepted.

2To enforce the use of console authentication via the local database, type the following command:

If you type this command before you have created a local username and password, you can lock yourself out of the WX switch. Before entering this command, you must configure a local username and password.

WX1200# set authentication console * local

3To store this configuration into nonvolatile memory, type the following command:

WX1200# save config

success: configuration saved.

By default, no authentication is required at the console. If you have previously required authentication and have decided not to require it (during testing, for example), type the following command to configure the console so that it does not require username and password authentication:

WX1200# set authentication console * none