Chapter 29 Access Control

•A non-administrator (username is something other than admin) is someone who can view but not configure Switch settings.

Click Management > Access Control > Logins to view the screen as shown next.

Figure 140 Management > Access Control > Logins

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 95 Management > Access Control > Logins

LABELDESCRIPTION

Administrator

This is the default administrator account with the “admin” user name. You cannot change the default administrator user name. Only the administrator has read/write access.

Old Password

Type the existing system password (1234 is the default password when

 

shipped).

 

 

New Password

Enter your new system password.

 

 

Retype to confirm

Retype your new system password for confirmation

 

 

Edit Logins

You may configure passwords for up to four users. These users have read-only access. You can give users higher privileges via the CLI. For more information on assigning privileges see Chapter 36 on page 277.

User Name

Set a user name (up to 32 ASCII characters long).

 

 

Password

Enter your new system password.

 

 

Retype to confirm

Retype your new system password for confirmation

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes to the Switch’s run-time memory. The Switch

 

loses these changes if it is turned off or loses power, so use the Save link on

 

the top navigation panel to save your changes to the non-volatile memory when

 

you are done configuring.

 

 

Cancel

Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

 

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