Authentication (Login) - Juniper JUNOS OS 10.3 - SOFTWARE Manual

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authentication (Login)

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OS for EX Series Ethernet Switches, Release 10.3
authentication {
(encrypted-password "password" | plain-text-password);
ssh-dsa "public-key";
ssh-rsa "public-key";
}
[edit system login user username]
Statement introduced before Junos OS Release 7.4.
Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 9.0 for EX Series switches.
Authentication methods that a user can use to log in to the router or switch. You can
assign multiple authentication methods to a single user.
encrypted-password "password"
authentication. Specify the MD5 or other password. You can specify only one
encrypted password for each user.
You cannot configure a blank password for
marks (" "). You must configure a password whose number of characters range from
1 through 128 characters and enclose the password in quotation marks.
—Plain-text password. The command-line interface (CLI) prompts
plain-text-password
you for the password and then encrypts it.
—SSH version 2 authentication. Specify the SSH public key. You
ssh-dsa "public-key"
can specify one or more public keys for each user.
ssh-rsa "public-key" —SSH version 1 and SSH version 2 authentication. Specify the SSH
public key. You can specify one or more public keys for each user.
admin—To view this statement in the configuration.
admin-control—To add this statement to the configuration.
Configuring JUNOS Software User Accounts
root-authentication on page 528
—Message Digest 5 (MD5) or other encrypted
encrypted-password
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using blank quotation