Passwords Screen

Field Descriptions

Refer to Table 3-5for a functional description of each screen field.

Table 3-5 Module Login Passwords Screen Field Descriptions

Use this field…

To…

 

 

 

Password

Enter the password used to access the device according to an access

(Modifiable)

policy.

 

 

 

Access Policy

See the access given each password. Possible selections are as follows:

(Read-only)

read-only

This password allows read-only access to the Local

 

 

 

Management, and excludes access to

 

 

security-protected fields of read-write or super-user

 

 

authorization.

 

read-write

This password allows read and write access to Local

 

 

Management, excluding security protected fields for

 

 

super-user access only.

 

super-user

This password permits read-write access to Local

 

 

Management and allows the user to change all

 

 

modifiable parameters including community names, IP

 

 

addresses, traps, and SNMP objects.

 

 

SWITCH 8

Enable or disable the function of hardware switch S8 on the main

(Toggle)

board of the device. When set to ENABLED, S8 can be used to clear

 

the password. When set to DISABLED, S8 cannot be used to clear the

 

password. The default is Enable.

 

 

Restrict NVRAM

Prevent passwords residing in NVRAM from being replaced when

Passwords from

downloading a configuration file. The default setting is DISABLED.

Upload/Download

This prevents the passwords from being downloaded.

(Toggle)

 

 

 

 

 

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