Service Manual

Creating a Username and Password for
Smart Scripting
Before you run a script from the Dell Networking OS CLI, you may want to configure an additional user name
and password to use only to run scripts on a switch.
Use the username and password to log in to a UNIX shell and apply the read-write privileges assigned to the
user name when a script runs with the script command from the Dell Networking OS CLI.
The username is an optional keyword in the script command (see Scheduling Time / Event-based Scripts).
To satisfy the requirements for a UNIX BSD login, the username must be fewer than 16 characters. A
username you use to run scripts cannot contain special characters.
• Create an additional username and password that you use to log in to a shell and apply read-write
privileges when you run a script.
CONFIGURATION mode
username name password password
Logging in to a NetBSD UNIX Shell
To log in to the NetBSD UNIX shell on a switch to directly use any of the UNIX commands described in
Supported UNIX Utilities or to run a script, use the start shell command.
You are prompted to enter a user name and password before you can access the shell. Login is performed
using SSHv2.
• Access the shell to run UNIX commands or a script (see Running a Script from the UNIX Shell).
EXEC Privilege mode
start shell
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