DES-1228/ME Metro Ethernet Managed Switch CLI Reference Guide
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enable admin
Purpose
Used to promote user level privileges to administrator level privileges.
Syntax
enable admin
Description
This command is for users who have logged on to the Switch on the
normal user level to become promoted to the administrator level. After
logging on to the Switch users will have only user level privileges. To
gain access to administrator level privileges, the user will enter this
command and will have to enter an authentication password. Possible
authentication methods for this function include TACACS, XTACACS,
, RADIUS, user defined server groups, local enable (local
account on the Switch), or no authentication (none). Because
XTACACS and TACACS do not support the enable function, the user
must create a special account on the server host which has the
username “enable”, and a password configured by the administrator
that will support the “enable” function. This function becomes inoperable
when the authentication policy is disabled.
Parameters
None.
Restrictions
None.
Example usage:
To enable administrator privileges on the Switch:
DES-1228/ME:5#enable admin
Password: ******
DES-1228/ME:5#
config admin local_enable
Purpose
Used to configure the local enable password for administrator level
privileges.
Syntax
config admin local_enable {encrypt [plain_text | sha_1] <password>}
Description
This command is used to configure the locally enabled password for
the enable admin command. When a user chooses the
“local_enable” method to promote user level privileges to
administrator privileges, he or she will be prompted to enter the
password configured here that is set locally on the Switch. If the
password is present in the command, the user can select to input the
password in plain text form or in encrypted form. The encryption
algorithm is based on SHA-I.
Parameters
<password >
−
The password for promoting the privilege level.
The length of the password in plain-text form and in encrypted form
are different. For the plain-text form, passwords do not have a
minimum length and can have a maximum of 15 characters. For the
encrypted form password, the length is fixed to 35 bytes long. The
password is case-sensitive.
Restrictions
Only Administrator level users can issue this command.
