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3. Press Enter.
Setting telnet and serial passwords
About this task
After the read-only and read-write passwords are set, they can be individually enabled or
disabled for the various switch access methods. When enabled, password security prompts
you for a password and the value is hidden. To enable or disable passwords, perform the
following procedure:
Procedure
1. Access CLI through the Telnet protocol or a Console connection.
2. From the command prompt, use the cli password command to enable or disable
Avaya WLAN 8100 CLI Reference
Table 39: cli password command parameters
Parameter
{read-only | read-write}
<password>
the desired password.
cli password {telnet | serial} {none | local | radius |
tacacs}
The following table describes the parameters for this command.
Table 40: cli password parameters
Parameter
{telnet | serial}
ACLI reference for wired networks
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.
Note:
• no password security
disables password security.
• password security
password security.
Description
This parameter specifies if the
password is enabled or disabled for
telnet or the console. Telnet and web
access are tied together so that
enables
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