Avaya 4000 Series Quick Start Configuration page 28

Configuring the switch using ACLI
3. Press Enter.
Enabling and disabling passwords
After you set the read-only and read-write passwords, you can individually enable or disable
them for the various switch-access methods. To enable passwords, perform the following
task.
1. Access ACLI through the Telnet protocol or a Console connection.
2. From the command prompt, use the cli password command to enable the
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Table 8: cli password parameters
Parameter
{read-only | read-write}
<password>
desired password.
cli password {telnet | serial} {none | local | radius |
tacacs}
The following table explains the parameters for the cli password command.
Table 9: cli password parameters
Parameter
{telnet | serial}
none | local | radius | tacacs
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Description
This parameter specifies if the password
change is for read-only access or read/write
access.
If password security is disabled, the length can
be 1-15 chars. If password security is enabled,
the range for length is 10-15 chars.
Description
Specify whether the password is enabled or
disabled for Telnet or the console. Telnet and
Web access are connected so that enabling or
disabling passwords for one enables or
disables passwords for the other.
Specifies the password type to modify:
• none: disables the password.
• local: uses the locally defined password for
serial console or Telnet access.
• radius: uses RADIUS authentication for serial
console or Telnet access.
November 2013