Accton Technology VS4512DC manual User Access Commands, Username Access-level Password

Command Line Interface

User Access Commands

The basic commands required for management access are listed in this section. This switch also includes other options for password checking via the console or a Telnet connection (page 4-9), user authentication via a remote authentication server (page 4-60),and host access authentication for specific ports (page 4-68).

Command	Function	Mode	Pag
			e
username	Establishes a user name-based authentication system at login	GC	4-24
enable password	Sets a password to control access to the Privileged Exec level	GC	4-25

username

This command adds named users, requires authentication at login, specifies or changes a user's password (or specify that no password is required), or specifies or changes a user's access level. Use the no form to remove a user name.

Syntax

username name {access-level level nopassword password {0 7} password}

no username name

•name - The name of the user.

(Maximum length: 8 characters, case sensitive. Maximum users: 16)

•access-levellevel - Specifies the user level.

•The device has two predefined privilege levels:

0: Normal Exec, 15: Privileged Exec.

•nopassword - No password is required for this user to log in.

•{0 7} - 0 means plain password, 7 means encrypted password.

•password password - The authentication password for the user. (Maximum length: 8 characters plain text, 32 encrypted, case sensitive)

Default Setting

•The default access level is Normal Exec.

•The factory defaults for the user names and passwords are:

username	access-level	password
guest	0	guest
admin	15	admin

Command Mode

Global Configuration

Command Usage

The encrypted password is required for compatibility with legacy password settings (i.e., plain text or encrypted) when reading the configuration file during system bootup or when downloading the configuration file from a TFTP server. There is no need for you to manually configure encrypted passwords.

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