Chapter 66 Access Control
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Note: Make sure to enable
Password Encryption
to avoid displaying passwords as plain text in
the configuration file.
Note: Be careful who can access configuration files with plain text passwords!
Password Encryption
encrypts all passwords in the configuration file. However, if you want to show some
passwords as plain text in the configuration file, select them as below:
•
Authentication
information configured for
Authentication
in the
SECURITY
>
AAA
>
AAA Setup
screen
(
Method 1
/
2
/
3
setting in the
Privilege Enable
and
Login
fields).
•
Authorization
information configured for
Authorization
in the
SECURITY
>
AAA
>
AAA Setup
screen
(
Active
/
Console
/
Method
setting in the
Exec
and
Dot1x
fields).
•
Server
information configured for
Authentication Server
in the
SECURITY
>
AAA
>
RADIUS Server Setup
screen, and for
Authentication Server
in the
SECURITY
>
AAA
>
Server Setup
screen (
Mode
/
Timeout
fields).
•
System
account information configured in the Switch (admin, user login name, and password).
•
SNMP
user account information configured in the
SYSTEM
>
SNMP
>
SNMP
User
screen (password for
SNMP user authentication in the
Authentication
field, and the password for the encryption method for
SNMP communication in the
Privacy
field).
Note: The passwords will appear as encrypted text when
Password Encryption
is
Active
.
Click
SECURITY
>
Access Control
>
Account Security
to view the screen as shown next.
Figure 328
SECURITY > Access Control > Account Security
