Administrator Access Level; Default Accounts; Adding A Password To The Default Admin Account - 3Com 3800 User Manual

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Administrator Access
Level

Default Accounts

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An administrator-level account can view and change all Switch
parameters, add and delete users, and change the password
associated with any account name. The administrator can disconnect a
Telnet management session. If this happens, the user is notified that
the session has been terminated.
If you have logged on with administrator access level, the
command-line prompt ends with a (#) sign. For example:
3C16910#
If an asterisk (*) appears in front of the command-line prompt, it
indicates that you have outstanding configuration changes that have
not been saved. For example:
*3C16910#
By default, the Switch is configured with two accounts, as shown in
Table 3-1.
Table 3-1 Default Accounts
User Name Access Level
admin This user can access and change all manageable
parameters. The admin account cannot be deleted.
user This user can view (but not change) all manageable
parameters, with the following exceptions:
This user has access to the ping command.
The default accounts do not have passwords assigned to them.
Passwords must have a minimum of 4 characters and can have a
maximum of 12 characters.

Adding a Password to the Default admin Account

To add a password to the default admin account, follow these steps:
1 Logon to the Switch using the name admin.
2 At the password prompt, press [Return].
3 Add a default admin password by typing the following:
config account admin
This user cannot view the user account database.
This user cannot view the SNMP community strings.