Chapter 1 Controlling CSS Access

Creating Usernames and Passwords

Creating Usernames and Passwords

Logging into the CSS requires a username and password. The CSS supports a maximum of 32 usernames, including the administrator and technician usernames. You can assign each user with SuperUser or User status.

User - Allows access to a limited set of commands that enable you to monitor and display CSS parameters, but not change them. A User prompt ends with the > symbol.

SuperUser - Allows access to the full set of CLI commands, including those in User mode, that enable you to configure the CSS. A SuperUser prompt ends with the # symbol.

From SuperUser mode, you can enter global configuration mode and its subordinate configuration modes. If you do not specify superuser when configuring a new user, the new user has only user-level status by default.

Caution Creating or modifying a username and password is restricted to CSS users who are identified as either administrators or technicians, and it is contingent on whether the restrict user-databasecommand has been entered.

Use the username command to create usernames and passwords to log in to the CSS. The syntax for this global configuration mode command is:

username name [des-passwordpassword]password {superuser} {dir-access access}

The following example creates a SuperUser named picard with a password of captain.

(config)# username picard password “captain” superuser

The options and variables are as follows:

name - Sets the username you want to assign or change. Enter an unquoted text string with no spaces and a maximum of 16 characters. To see a list of existing usernames, enter username ?.

des-password- Specifies the password is Data Encryption Standard (DES) encrypted. Use this option only when you are creating a file for use as a script or a startup configuration file. Enter the DES password as a case-sensitive unquoted text string 6 to 64 characters in length.

 

 

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