CLI Reference Guide

User Guidelines
1. If the password you configured here is unencrypted and the global
encryption function is enabled in serv ice password-e ncryption
, the
password in the configuration file will be displayed in the symmetric
encrypted form.
2. If you change the password of the current user in a telnet or console
connection, the connection will be cut off and the newly configured
password is required for the re-login.
Example
Add and enable a new admin user named “tplink”, of which the password is
“admin” and unencrypted:
TL-SG3424(config)#user name tplink privilege admin password 0 admin
user name (secret)
Description
The user name command is used to add a new user or modify the existed users’
information. To delete the existed users, please use no user n a me command.
This command uses the MD5 encryption.
Syntax
user name name [ priv ilege admin | guest ] secret { [ 0 ] password | 5
encrypted-password }
no user name name
Parameter
name ——Type a name for users' login, which contains 16 characters at most,
composed of digits, English letters and under dashes only.
admin | guest —— Access level. “Admin” means that you can edit, modify and
view all the settings of different functions. “Guest” means that you can only view
the settings without the right to edit and modify. It is “admin” by default.
0 —— Specify the encryption type. 0 indicates that an unencrypted password will
follow. By default, the encryption type is 0.
password ——Users’ login password, a string from 1 to 31 alphanumeric
characters or symbols. The password is case sensitive, allows digits, English
letters (case sensitive), underlines and sixteen special characters
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