Patton electronic SmartNode 4110 Series Password encryption, Factory preset administrator account

SmartWare Software Configuration Guide 4 • Accessing the CLI

Password encryption

Unencrypted passwords can be stolen by hackers using protocol analyzers to scan packets or by examining the configuration file—to protect against that type of theft, SmartWare encrypts passwords by default. Encryption prevents the password from being readable in the configuration file.

•Plain text

•Encrypted text (for example, the password mypassword always appears in encrypted form as HUAvCYeILWZz3hQvS0IEpQ== encrypted when doing a show command)

The command show running-configalways displays the passwords in encrypted format. To encrypt a pass- word, enter the password in plain format and retrieve the encrypted format from the running-config or store it permanently into the startup-config (with the command copy running-configstartup-config).

Factory preset administrator account

SmartWare contains a factory preset administrator account with the name administrator and an empty pass- word. After adding a new administrator account, the factory preset administrator account is automatically deleted and only the newly created administrator account is available. You can create more than one adminis- trator account, but there has to be at least one administrator account defined. If, for some reason, the last administrator account is deleted, the factory preset administrator account with the name administrator and an empty password is automatically recreated.

Configuring operators and administrators

Creating an operator account

Operators do not have the privileges to run the enable command and therefore cannot modify the system configuration. Operators can view partial system information.

Creating a new operator account is described in the following procedure:

Mode: Operator execution

Step	Command	Purpose
1	node>enable	Enters administration execution mode
2	node#configure	Enters configuration mode
3	node(cfg)# operator name password password	Creates a new operator account name and
		password password
4	copy running-config startup-config	Saves the change made to the running config-
		uration of the SmartNode, so that it will be
		used following a reload

Example: Create an operator account

The following example shows how to add a new operator account with a login name support and a matching password of s4DF&qw. The changed configuration is then saved.

node>enable

node#configure

node(cfg)#operator support password s4DF&qw

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