Operation Manual – Login
H3C S5500-EI Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 2 Logging In Through the Console Port
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To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
Define a shortcut key
for aborting tasks
escape-key
{
default
|
character
}
Optional
The default shortcut key
combination for aborting tasks is <
Ctrl+C >.
Make terminal
services available to
the user interface
shell
Optional
By default, terminal services are
available in all user interfaces.
Set the maximum
number of lines the
screen can contain
screen-length
screen-length
Optional
By default, the screen can contain
up to 24 lines.
You can use the
screen-length
0
command to disable the function
to display information in pages.
Set history command
buffer size
history-command
max-size
value
Optional
The default history command
buffer size is 10. That is, a history
command buffer can store up to
10 commands by default.
Set the timeout time
for the user interface
idle-timeout
minutes
[
seconds
]
Optional
The default timeout time of a user
interface is 10 minutes.
With the timeout time being 10
minutes, the connection to a user
interface is terminated if no
operation is performed in the user
interface within 10 minutes.
You can use the
idle-timeout
0
command to disable the timeout
function.
Note that if you configure to authenticate the users in the password mode, the
command level available to users logging in to a switch depends on both the
authentication-mode
password
and the
user privilege level
level
command, as
listed in the following table.
