Configuring User Accounts And Rbac; Information About User Accounts And Rbac; About User Accounts - Cisco nexus 5000 series Cli Configuration Manual

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Configuring User Accounts and RBAC

This chapter describes how to configure user accounts and role-based access control (RBAC) on the
Nexus 5000 Series switch.
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Information About User Accounts and RBAC

You can create and manage users accounts and assign roles that limit access to operations on the Nexus
5000 Series switch. RBAC allows you to define the rules for an assign role that restrict the authorization
that the user has to access management operations.
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About User Accounts

The following words are reserved and cannot be used to configure users: bin, daemon, adm, lp, sync,
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shutdown, halt, mail, news, uucp, operator, games, gopher, ftp, nobody, nscd, mailnull, rpc, rpcuser, xfs,
gdm, mtsuser, ftpuser, man, and sys.
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Information About User Accounts and RBAC, page 1-1
Guidelines and Limitations, page 1-4
Configuring User Accounts, page 1-4
Configuring RBAC, page 1-5
Verifying User Accounts and RBAC Configuration, page 1-9
Example User Accounts and RBAC Configuration, page 1-9
Default Settings, page 1-10
About User Accounts, page 1-1
Characteristics of Strong Passwords, page 1-2
About User Roles, page 1-2
About Rules, page 1-3
About User Role Policies, page 1-3
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