Users Guide

• Congure a custom privilege level for the terminal lines.
LINE mode
privilege level level
– level level: The range is from 0 to 15. Levels 0, 1, and 15 are pre-congured. Levels 2 to 14 are available for custom
conguration.
• Specify either a plain text or encrypted password.
LINE mode
password [encryption-type] password
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 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 Dell> 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.
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