Chapter17: System Maintenance and Administration
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MANAGING SECURITY
The command-line interface comes with the user account admin and password dslam
preconfigured. You can change the admin password, however you cannot delete the admin user
account. You can add up to 11 additional user accounts, and configure the password, security
level and access methods for each account. You can also modify user account information and
delete user accounts.
You configure user accounts from the ::user=> prompt. From the ::root=> prompt, type
the following command then press to display the ::user=> prompt.
admin user

Adding User Accounts

1From the ::user=> prompt, type the new command in the following format then press
.
new <name> <security level> <access method>
A password prompt displays.
2Type a password for the user account then press .
3At the prompt, retype the password then press .
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