Nortel Networks manual Accessing the Nortel Snas 4050 cluster

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Accessing the Nortel SNAS 4050 cluster

To enable better Nortel SNAS 4050 management and user accountability, there are five categories of users who can access the Nortel SNAS 4050 cluster:

•The Operator is granted read access only to the menus and information appropriate to this user access level. The Operator cannot make any changes to the configuration.

•The Administrator can make any changes to the Nortel SNAS 4050 configuration. Thus, the Administrator has read and write access to all menus, information, and configuration commands in the Nortel SNAS 4050 software.

•A Certificate Administrator is a member of the certadmin group. A Certificate Administrator has sufficient user rights to manage certificates and private keys. By default, only the Administrator user is a member of the certadmin group. To separate the Certificate Administrator user role from the Administrator user role, the Administrator user can add a new user account to the system, assign the new user to the certadmin group, and then remove himself or herself from the certadmin group. For more information, see “Adding a new user” on page 360.

•The Boot user can perform a reinstallation only. For security reasons, it is only possible to log on as the Boot user through the console port using terminal emulation software. The default Boot user password is ForgetMe. The Boot user password cannot be changed from the default.

•The Root user is granted full access to the underlying Linux operating system. For security reasons, it is only possible to log on as the Root user through the console port using terminal emulation software. Reserve Root user access for advanced troubleshooting purposes, under guidance from Nortel customer support.

For more information, see “How to get help” on page 29.

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Guide