Operation Manual – Login
H3C S5500-EI Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 3 Logging In Through Telnet
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To do…
Use the command…
Remarks
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 the 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 of 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
command and the
user privilege level
level
command, as listed in
Table 3-5
.
Table 3-5
Determine the command level when users logging in to switches are
authenticated in the password mode
Scenario
Authentication
mode
User type
Command
Command
level
The
user privilege level
level
command not executed
Level 0
Password
(authentication-
mode password)
VTY users
The
user privilege level
level
command already executed
Determined
by the
level
argument
