Authenticating At The Console - D-Link DWS-1008 - AirPremier MobileLAN Switch Product Manual

You can configure the console so that authentication is required, or so that no authentication is required.
D-Link recommends that you enforce authentication on the console port.
To enforce console authentication, take the following steps:
1. Add a user in the local database by typing the following command with a username and
password:
DWS-1008# set user use rname password
password success: change accepted.
2. To enforce the use of console authentication via the local database, type the following
command:
Caution: If you type this command before you have created a local username and password,
you can lock yourself out of the switch. Before entering this command, you must configure
a local username and password.
DWS-1008# set authentication console * local
3. To store this configuration into nonvolatile memory, type the following command:
DWS-1008# save config
success: configuration saved
By default, no authentication is required at the console. If you have previously required authentication
and have decided not to require it (during testing, for example), type the following command to configure
the console so that it does not require username and password authentication:
DWS-1008# set authentication console * none
Note: The authentication method none you can specify for administrative access is different from the
fallthru authentication type None, which applies only to network access. The authentication method
none allows access to the switch by an administrator. The fallthru authentication type None denies
access to a network user.
D-Link DWS-1008 User Manual

Authenticating at the Console