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Chapter 2 Configuring CSS Basics
Creating Usernames and Passwords
•
des-password
- Specifies that the password you enter is the Data Encryption
Standard (DES) form of the password. Use this option
only
when you are
creating a script or a startup configuration file. Enter a DES-encrypted,
case-sensitive, unquoted text string with no spaces from 6 to 64 characters.
Note
If you specify the
des-password
option, you must know the
encrypted form of the password to successfully log in to the CSS. You
can find the CSS encrypted password in the Global section of the
running-config. To display the running-config, use the
show
running-config
command.
•
password
- Specifies that the password is not encrypted on your display as
you enter it. However, the CSS DES-encrypts the password in the
running-config for extra security. Use this option when you use the CLI to
create users. Enter a case-sensitive, unquoted text string with no spaces from
6 to 16 characters.
•
password
- The text string that you enter. The CSS allows all special
characters in a password except for the percent sign (%).
•
superuser
- Specifies SuperUser privileges to allow a user to access
SuperUser mode. If you do not enter this option, the user can access only User
mode.
•
dir-access
- (Optional) Defines the CSS directory access privileges for the
username. There are access privileges assigned to the seven CSS directories,
in the following order: Script, Log, Root (installed CSS software), Archive,
Release Root (configuration files), Core, and MIBs. By default, users have
both read- and write-access privileges (B) to all seven directories.
Administrators or technicians can use the
dir-access
option to selectively
implement a set of directory access privileges for each user. Changing the
access level also affects the use of the CLI commands associated with
directories.
To use the
dir-access
option, you must first specify the
restrict
user-database
command to implement security restrictions for the CSS user
database (refer to the
Cisco Content Services Switch Administration Guid
e).
