Managing Switch User Accounts

Configuring Privileges for a User

 

 

 

 

Configuring Privileges for a User

To configure privileges for a user, enter the user command with the read-onlyor read-writeoption and the desired CLI command domain names or command family names. The read-onlyoption provides access to show commands; the read-writeoption provides access to configuration commands and show commands. Command families are subsets of command domains.

If you create a user without specifying any privileges, the user’s account will be configured with the privi- leges specified for the default user account.

Command domains and families are listed here:

Domain

Corresponding Families

domain-admin

file telnet dshell debug

 

 

domain-system

system aip snmp rmon webmgt config

 

 

domain-physical

chassis module interface pmm health

 

 

domain-network

ip rip ospf vrrp ip-routing ipms

 

 

domain-layer2

vlan bridge stp 802.1q linkagg ip-helper

 

 

domain-service

dns

 

 

domain-policy

qos policy

 

 

domain-security

session avlan aaa

 

 

In addition to command families, the keywords all or none may be used to set privileges for all command families or no command families respectively.

An example of setting up user privileges:

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

User thomas will have write access to all the configuration commands and show commands in the network domain, as well as Telnet and IP helper (DHCP relay) commands. The user will not be able to execute any other commands on the switch.

Use the keyword all to specify access to all commands. In the following example, the user is given read access to all commands:

-> user lindy read-only all

Note. When modifying an existing user, the user password is not required. If you are configuring a new user with privileges, the password is required.

The default user privileges may also be modified. See “Default User Settings” on page 7-7.

OmniSwitch 6600 Family Switch Management Guide March 2005

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