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Configuring Management Access
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To change the password on the default account, see “Applying a Password to the Default Account” on
page 50 .
Creating a Management Account
The switch can have a total of 16 management accounts. You can use the default names ( admin and
user ), or you can create new names and passwords for the accounts. Passwords can have a minimum of
0 characters and a maximum of 32 characters.
To create a new account:
1 Log in to the switch as admin .
2 At the password prompt, press [Return], or enter the password that you have configured for the
admin account.
3 Add a new user by using the following command:
create account [admin | user] <account-name> {encrypted <password> }
If you do not want a password associated with the specified account, press Enter twice.
Viewing Accounts
To view the accounts that have been created, you must have administrator privileges. To see the
accounts, use the following command:
show accounts
Deleting an Account
To delete a account, you must have administrator privileges. To delete an account, use the following
command:
delete account <name>
Failsafe Account
The failsafe account is the account of last resort to access your switch. This account is never displayed
by the
show accounts
command, but it is always present on the switch. To configure the account name
and password for the failsafe account, use the following command:
configure failsafe-account
You will be prompted for the failsafe account name and prompted twice to specify the password for the
account. For example:
BD-10808.1 # configure failsafe-account
enter failsafe user name: blue5green
enter failsafe password:
enter password again:
BD-10808.2
The failsafe account is immediately saved to NVRAM.