Specifications

Chapter 2 Configuring CSS Basics
Creating Usernames and Passwords
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Creating Usernames and Passwords
You can assign each user that logs into the CSS with SuperUser or User status.
• User - Allows access to a limited set of commands that enable you to monitor
and display CSS parameters, but not change them. A User prompt ends with
the > symbol.
• SuperUser - Allows access to the full set of CLI commands, including those
in User mode, that enable you to configure the CSS. A SuperUser prompt
ends with the # symbol.
Use the username command to create usernames and passwords to log in to the
CSS. The CSS supports a maximum of 32 usernames, including the administrator
and technician usernames.
From SuperUser mode, you can enter global configuration mode and its
subordinate configuration modes. If you do not specify superuser when
configuring a new user, the new user has only user-level status by default.
Caution Creating or modifying a username and password is restricted to CSS users who
are identified as either administrators or technicians, and it is contingent on
whether the restrict user-database command has been entered (refer to the Cisco
Content Services Switch Security Configuration Guide).
The syntax for this global configuration mode command is:
username name [des-password|password] password {superuser}
{dir-access access}
The following example creates a SuperUser named picard with a password of
captain.
(config)# username picard password “captain” superuser
The options and variables are as follows:
• name - Sets the username you want to assign or change. Enter an unquoted
text string with no spaces and a maximum of 16 characters. To see a list of
existing usernames, enter username ?.