Dell PowerConnect B-RX BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide v02.8.00 - Page 151

Setting up local user accounts 4 • Web Management access • SNMP access Local user accounts provide greater flexibility for controlling management access to the device than do management privilege level passwords and SNMP community strings of SNMP versions 1 and 2. You can continue to use the privilege level passwords and the SNMP community strings as additional means of access authentication. Alternatively, you can choose not to use local user accounts and instead continue to use only the privilege level passwords and SNMP community strings. Local user accounts are backward-compatible with configuration files that contain privilege level passwords. Refer to "Setting passwords for management privilege levels" on page 71. If you configure local user accounts, you also need to configure an authentication-method list for Telnet access, Web management access, and SNMP access. Refer to "Configuring authentication-method lists" on page 112. For each local user account, you specify a user name which can have up to 255 characters. You also can specify the following parameters: • A password • A management privilege level, which can be one of the following: • Super User level - Allows complete read-and-write access to the system. This is generally for system administrators and is the only privilege level that allows you to configure passwords. This is the default. • Port Configuration level - Allows read-and-write access for specific ports but not for global (system-wide) parameters. • Read Only level - Allows access to the Privileged EXEC mode and CONFIG mode but only with read access. Configuring a local user account To configure a local user account, enter a command such as the following at the global CONFIG level of the CLI. BigIron RX(config)# username wonka password willy This command adds a local user account with the user name "wonka" and the password "willy". This account has the Super User privilege level; this user has full access to all configuration and display features. NOTE If you configure local user accounts, you must grant Super User level access to at least one account before you add accounts with other privilege levels. You need the Super User account to make further administrative changes. BigIron RX(config)# username waldo privilege 5 password whereis This command adds a user account for user name "waldo", password "whereis", with the Read Only privilege level. Waldo can look for information but cannot make configuration changes. Syntax: [no] username privilege password | nopassword Enter up to 255 characters for . BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide 75 53-1002253-01