SMC Networks SMC6824M manual User Access Commands, Username

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT COMMANDS

User Access Commands

The basic commands required for management access are listed in this section. This switch also includes other options for password checking via the console or a Telnet connection (page 4-13),user authentication via a remote authentication server (page 4-151),and host access authentication for specific ports (page 4-110).

Table 4-9 User Access Commands

Command	Function	Mode	Page
username	Establishes a user name-based authentication	GC	4-34
	system at login
enable password	Sets a password to control access to the	GC	4-36
	Privileged Exec level

username

This command adds named users, requires authentication at login, specifies or changes a user's password (or specify that no password is required), or specifies or changes a user's access level. Use the no form to remove a user name.

Syntax

username name {access-level level nopassword password {0 7} password}

no username name

•name - The name of the user.

(Maximum length: 8 characters, case sensitive. Maximum users: 16)

•access-levellevel - Specifies the user level.

•The device has two predefined privilege levels:

0: Normal Exec, 15: Privileged Exec.

•nopassword - No password is required for this user to log in.

•{0 7} - 0 means plain password, 7 means encrypted password.

•password password - The authentication password for the user. (Maximum length: 8 characters plain text, 32 encrypted, case sensitive)

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