Switch Owner's Manual

Using the Passport 8100 Modules
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Setting System Security
System security parameters allow you to define login names and passwords for
access to the switch management functions and to specify the access methods,
such as through a Telnet session or through a Web browser.
To set system security:
1. Change CLI users and passwords using the following commands:
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config cli password ro <username>[<password>]—changes the
Read-Only login and/or password.
• config cli password l2 <username>[<password>]—changes the
Layer 2 Read-Write login and/or password.
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config cli password rw <username>[<password>]—changes the
Read-Write login and/or password.
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config cli password rwa <username>[<password>]—changes the
Read-Write-All login and/or password.
where:
username is the login name.
password is the password associated with the login name.
2. Change SNMP community strings using the command:
config sys set snmp community <ro|rw|l2|rwa> <commstr>
where:
<ro|rw|l2|rwa> is the choice of community—ro is Read-Only, rw is
Read-Write,
l2 is Layer 2 Read-Write, and rwa is Read-Write-All.
<commstr> is the input community string {string}.
3. Enable or disable Web access using the commands:
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config web-server disable to turn off Web access
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config web-server enable to turn on Web access