Configuring User Accounts And Rbac; Information About User Accounts And Rbac; User Roles; Chapter - Cisco Nexus 3548 Configuration Manual

Configuring User Accounts and RBAC

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Information About User Accounts and RBAC

Cisco Nexus Series switches use role-based access control (RBAC) to define the amount of access that each
user has when the user logs into the switch.
With RBAC, you define one or more user roles and then specify which management operations each user role
is allowed to perform. When you create a user account for the switch, you associate that account with a user
role, which then determines what the individual user is allowed to do on the switch.

User Roles

User roles contain rules that define the operations allowed for the user who is assigned the role. Each user
role can contain multiple rules and each user can have multiple roles. For example, if role1 allows access only
to configuration operations, and role2 allows access only to debug operations, users who belong to both role1
and role2 can access configuration and debug operations. You can also limit access to specific VLANs, and
interfaces.
The switch provides the following default user roles:
network-admin (superuser)
Information About User Accounts and RBAC, page 21
Guidelines and Limitations for User Accounts, page 24
Configuring User Accounts, page 25
Configuring RBAC, page 26
Verifying the User Accounts and RBAC Configuration, page 29
Configuring User Accounts Default Settings for the User Accounts and RBAC, page 30
Complete read and write access to the entire switch.
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