Specifications

Command Line Interface
3-24
3
User Access Commands
The basic commands required for management access are listed in this section.
This switch also includes other options for password checking via the console or a
Telnet connection (page 3-9), user authentication via a remote authentication server
(page 3-92), and host access authentication for specific ports (page 3-59).
username
Use this command to add named users, require authentication at login, specify or
change a user's password (or specify that no password is required), or specify or
change a user's access level. Use the no form to remove a user name.
Syntax
username name {access-level level | nopassword |
password {0 | 7} password}
no username name
• name - The name of the user.
(Maximum length: 8 characters, case sensitive. Maximum users: 16)
• access-level level - Specifies the user level.
• The device has two predefined privilege levels:
0: Normal Exec, 15: Privileged Exec.
• nopassword - No password is required for this user to log in.
•{0 | 7} - 0 means plain password, 7 means encrypted password.
• password password - The authentication password for the user.
(Maximum length: 8 characters, 32 encrypted, case sensitive)
Default Setting
• The default access level is Normal Exec.
• The factory defaults for the user names and passwords are:
Table 3-19 User Access Commands
Command Function Mode Page
username Establishes a user name-based authentication system at login GC 3-24
enable password Sets a password to control access to the Privileged Exec level GC 3-25
Table 3-20 Default Login Settings
username access-level password
guest
admin
0
15
guest
admin