xStack® DES-3528/DES-3552 Series Layer 2 Managed Stackable Fast Ethernet Switch CLI Reference Guide
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Each command is listed, in detail, in the following sections.
create account
Purpose
Used to create user accounts.
Syntax
create account [admin | operator | power_user | user] <username 15> {encrypt
[plain_text | sha_1] <password>}
Description
This command is used to create user accounts that consist of a username of 1 to 15
characters and a password of 0 to 15 characters. Up to 8 user accounts can be created.
Parameters
admin
- Specify the name of the admin account.
operator
- Specify the name for a operator user account.
power_user
– Specify the name for a Power-user account.
user
- Specify the name of the user account.
<username 15>
- Enter the username used here. This name can be up to 15 characters long.
encrypt
- (Optional) Specify the encryption applied to the account.
plain_text
- Select to specify the password in plain text form.
sha_1
- Select to specify the password in the SHA-I encrypted form.
<password>
- The password for the user account. The length for of password in plain-text
form and in encrypted form are different. For the plain-text form, passwords must have a
minimum of 0 character and can have a maximum of 15 characters. For the encrypted form
password, the length is fixed to 35 bytes long. The password is case-sensitive.
Restrictions
Only Administrator-level users can issue this command.
Usernames can be between 1 and 15 characters.
Passwords can be between 0 and 15 characters.
Example usage:
To create an administrator-level user account with the username “dlink”.
DES-3528:admin# create account admin dlink
Command: create account admin dlink
Enter a case-sensitive new password:****
Enter the new password again for confirmation:****
Success.
DES-3528:admin#
NOTICE:
In case of lost passwords or password corruption, please refer to the D-Link website and
the White Paper entitled “Password Recovery Procedure”, which will guide you through the steps
necessary to resolve this issue.
