Configuring A Local User Account - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

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Local user accounts provide greater flexibility for controlling management access to the device
than do management privilege level passwords and SNMP community strings of SNMP versions 1
and 2. You can continue to use the privilege level passwords and the SNMP community strings as
additional means of access authentication. Alternatively, you can choose not to use local user
accounts and instead continue to use only the privilege level passwords and SNMP community
strings. Local user accounts are backward-compatible with configuration files that contain privilege
level passwords. Refer to
If you configure local user accounts, you also need to configure an authentication-method list for
Telnet access, Web management access, and SNMP access. Refer to
authentication-method lists"
For each local user account, you specify a user name which can have up to 255 characters. You
also can specify the following parameters:
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Configuring a local user account

To configure a local user account, enter a command such as the following at the global CONFIG
level of the CLI.
BigIron RX(config)# username wonka password willy
This command adds a local user account with the user name "wonka" and the password "willy".
This account has the Super User privilege level; this user has full access to all configuration and
display features.
NOTE
If you configure local user accounts, you must grant Super User level access to at least one account
before you add accounts with other privilege levels. You need the Super User account to make
further administrative changes.
BigIron RX(config)# username waldo privilege 5 password whereis
This command adds a user account for user name "waldo", password "whereis", with the Read
Only privilege level. Waldo can look for information but cannot make configuration changes.
Syntax: [no] username <user-string> privilege <privilege-level> password | nopassword
Enter up to 255 characters for <user-string>.
BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
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Web Management access
SNMP access
"Setting passwords for management privilege levels"
on page 112.
A password
A management privilege level, which can be one of the following:
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Super User level – Allows complete read-and-write access to the system. This is generally
for system administrators and is the only privilege level that allows you to configure
passwords. This is the default.
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Port Configuration level – Allows read-and-write access for specific ports but not for global
(system-wide) parameters.
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Read Only level – Allows access to the Privileged EXEC mode and CONFIG mode but only
with read access.
<password-string>
Setting up local user accounts
on page 71.
"Configuring
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