Managing Switch User Accounts

Overview of User Accounts

 

 

 

 

Quick Steps for Network Administrator User Accounts

1Configure the user with the relevant username and password. For example, to create a user called thomas with a password of pubs, enter the following:

-> user thomas password techpubs

For information about creating a user and setting up a password, see “Creating a User” on page 7-8.

2Configure the user privileges (and SNMP access) if the user should have privileges that are different than those set up for the default user account. For example:

-> user thomas read-write domain-network ip-helper telnet

For information about the default user settings, see the next section. For information about setting up priv- ileges, see “Configuring Privileges for a User” on page 7-11.

Note. Optional. To verify the user account, enter the show user command. The display is similar to the following:

User name = admin

 

Read Only for domains

= None,

Read/Write for domains

= All ,

Snmp not allowed

 

User name = public

 

Read Only for domains

= None,

Read/Write for domains

= All ,

Snmp authentication

= NONE, Snmp encryption = NONE

User name = thomas

 

Read Only for domains

= None,

Read/Write for domains

= Network ,

Read/Write for families

= telnet ip-helper ,

Snmp not allowed

 

User name = default

 

Read Only for domains

= None,

Read/Write for domains

= None,

Snmp not allowed

 

For more information about the show user command, see the OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide.

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