Concept Guide

Congure the following optional and required parameters:
– encryption-type: Enter 0 for plain text or 7 for encrypted text.
– password: Enter a text string up to 32 characters long.
To view the password congured for a terminal, use the show config command in LINE mode.
Enabling and Disabling Privilege Levels
To enable and disable privilege levels, use the following commands.
• Set a user’s security level.
EXEC Privilege mode
enable or enable privilege-level
If you do not enter a privilege level, Dell EMC Networking OS sets it to 15 by default.
• Move to a lower privilege level.
EXEC Privilege mode
disable level-number
– level-number: The level-number you wish to set.
If you enter disable without a level-number, your security level is 1.
Resetting a Password
To reset a password on the system, follow these steps.
1 Connect to the system using a console.
2 Disconnect and reconnect the power cord on the system to cycle the power.
3 During system boot, press ESC when prompted to display the Grub Menu (see Example 1).
4 During system boot, press ESC when prompted during the countdown to stop the auto-boot process (see Example 2).
5 Press C to access the Grub boot loader command line prompt.
6 Enter the following commands at the Grub command line prompt (grub>).
set stconfigignore=true
save_env stconfigignore
reboot
7 The system boots up with factory default conguration. The default DellEMC> system prompt displays when the system boots.
8 Copy the startup-cong into the running-cong.
9 To display the content of the startup-cong, remove the previous authentication conguration and set the new authentication
parameters. The rest of the previous conguration is preserved.
Example 1
Example 2
Version 2.00.1201. Copyright (C) 2017 American Megatrends, Inc.
EVALUATION COPY.
Press <DEL> or <F2> to enter setup.
Grub 1.99~rc1 (Dell Force10)
Built by root at bsdlab on Thu_Aug_18_06:51:21_UTC_2011
Z9000 Boot selector Label 3.0.1.1 NetBoot Label 0.0.0.0
Entering Menu
Grub 1.99~rc1 (Dell Force10)
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