Configure System Attributes - Juniper PTX5000 Quick Start Manual

1. Add a password to the root administration user account. Enter a cleartext password.
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root@host# set system root-authentication plain-text-password
New password: password
Retype new password: password
2. Create a management console user account.
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root@host# set system login user user-name authentication plain-text-password
New Password: password
Retype new password: password
3. Set the user account class to super-user.
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root@host# set system login user user-name class super-user

Configure System Attributes

1. Configure the name of the PTX5000. If the name includes spaces, enclose the name in quotation marks
(" ").
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root@# set system host-name host-name
NOTE: The DNS server does not use the hostname to resolve to the correct IP address. This
hostname is used to display the name of the device in the CLI. For example, this hostname is
displayed on the command-line prompt when the user is logged in to the CLI:
user-name@host-name>
2. Configure the IP address of the DNS server.
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