AB291A Fabric Clustering System Support Guide (12-port Switch), April 2004

Chapter 5
Administration and Management
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User Account Configuration Commands Use the following commands and keywords to administer User
Accounts:
Community Strings
Changing Community Strings Use the CLI to set or change SNMP community strings. If you do not want users to
have SNMP access to the system, remove their community string.
To change community strings:
Step 1. Log in as the unrestricted user.
Only a user with unrestricted permissions may create and modify user accounts. However, any user with write
access (administrative and unrestricted) can remove their own community string.
Login: super
Password: xxxx
HP-IB>
Step 2. Enter the privileged-user mode.
HP-IB> enable
HP-IB#
Step 3. Enter the global-configuration mode.
HP-IB# configure
HP-IB(config)#
Step 4. Enter the username command with the name of the user, the community-string keyword, and the new
community string to assign this user.
HP-IB(config)# username ib-admin community-string ib-commStr
In the example above, ib-admin is the name of the user, community-string is a mandatory keyword.
ib-commStr is the SNMP community string the user will have to use to execute other SNMP functions.
Table 5-8 User Account Administrative Commands
Command Task
username user password passwd Creates a new user account.
username user no Deletes a user account.
username user community-string Assigns a community string to a user account.
username user no-community-string Removes a community string from a user account.
username user privilege priv1 [priv2]
[priv3]
Example: ib-ro, ib-rw, ip-ethernet-ro,
ip-ethernet-rw, fc-ro, fc-rw,
unrestricted-rw
Assigns one or more permission level(s) to a user
account. Refer to Table 5-10 on page 95 for a list of
privilege levels.
username user no permission Assigns a default permission level to a user.
username user enable Administratively enables a User Account.
username user disable Administratively disables a User Account.