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140 The Command Line Interface
Accessing the NVG Cluster
To enable better NVG management and user accountability, five
categories of users can access the NVG cluster:
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Access to the NVG command line interface and settings is controlled
through the use of four predefined user accounts and passwords. Once
you are connected to the VPN Gateway through a console connection
or remote connection (Telnet or SSH), you are prompted to enter a user
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Operator is only granted read access to the menus and information
appropriate to this user access level. The Operator cannot make any
changes to the configuration.
Administrator can make any changes to the NVG configuration. Thus,
the Administrator has read and write access to all menus, information
and configuration commands in the NVG software.
A Certificate Administrator is a member of the certadmin group, and
has sufficient user rights to manage certificates and private keys. By
default, only the Administrator user is a member of the certadmin
group. To separate the Certificate Administrator user role from the
Administrator user role, the Administrator user can add a new user
account to the system, assign the new user to the certadmin group,
and then remove himself or herself from the certadmin group. For
more information, see
Boot user can only perform a reinstallation. For security reasons, it
is only possible to log in as the Boot user through the console port
using terminal emulation software. The Boot user password cannot be
changed from the default ForgetMe.
Root user is granted full access to the underlying Linux operating
system. For security reasons, it is only possible to log in as the Root
user through the console port using terminal emulation software. Root
user access should mainly be reserved for advanced troubleshooting
purposes, under guidance from Nortel customer support.
For more information, see
Nortel VPN Gateway
NN46120-104 02.01 Standard
14 April 2008
"Adding a New User" (page
"How to Get Help" (page
User Guide
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