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The first character must be alphabetical (A-Z a-z), an underscore (_), or a dash (-). Other limitations on
user names are:
• User names are case-sensitive. If you enter a user 'bob' but use 'BOB' when connecting via CIFS or FTP,
it will use the account settings used for 'BOB' not 'bob'.
• User names have to be different than user group names.
• Here are the reserved user names:
• adm •
• debug •
• ldap-users •
• operator •
• sync •
To access this screen, go to the User screen, and click Add or Edit.
Figure 90 Configuration > Object > User > Add/Edit A User
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 53 Configuration > User > User > Add/Edit A User
LABEL DESCRIPTION
User Name Type the user name for this user account. You may use 1-31 alphanumeric characters,
underscores(
sensitive. User names have to be different than user group names, and some words are
reserved.
User Type Select what type of user this is. Choices are:
• admin - this user can look at and change the configuration of the Zyxel Device
• limited-admin - this user can look at the configuration of the Zyxel Device but not to
change it
• user - this is used for embedded RADIUS server and SNMPv3 user access
Password Enter the password of this user account. It can consist of 4 - 63 alphanumeric characters.
Retype Re-enter the password to make sure you have entered it correctly.
Description Enter the description of each user, if any. You can use up to 60 printable ASCII characters.
Default descriptions are provided.
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admin • any
devicehaecived • ftp
lp • mail
radius-users • root
uucp • zyxel
), or dashes (-), but the first character cannot be a number. This value is case-
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• bin • daemon
• games • halt
• news • nobody
• shutdown • sshd