Authentication - HP X5000 G2 Administrator's Manual

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Authentication

This section defines EM authentication CLI functions.
ADD USER
Syntax
ADD USER "<user name>"["<password>"]
Description
Adds a user to the system. If you do not provide a password, you are prompted for one. If script
mode is enabled and the password is not provided, the password is assigned an unmatched string.
This unmatched string requires an enclosure administrator to change the password to allow the
new user to access the system.
Restrictions
You can add a maximum of 30 users, including the reserved accounts.
The <user name> is case-sensitive and must be unique to all other user names and group
names. The user name must be 1 to 40 characters long and can include all alphanumeric
characters, the hyphen, and the underscore.
The <user name> must begin with a letter.
The <password> must be 3 to 40 characters long. The character set includes all printable
characters. If you do not enter a password, you are prompted to enter one.
Reserved user names are: ALL (case insensitive), ADMINISTRATOR (case insensitive), switch1,
switch2, switch3, switch4, switch5, switch6, switch7, switch8, daemon, ldapuser, nobody,
tbmuser_, vcmuser_, root, and quire.
CLEAR SSHKEY
Syntax
CLEAR SSHKEY
Description
Disables a user account. The system immediately logs out the user and prevents the user from
logging in until the account is enabled.
This command is used in the factory to disable the 'root' user account. The root user account is
required to perform certain factory-only configuration and diagnostic operations when logged into
the Linux shell.
Restrictions
None
DOWNLOAD SSHKEY
Syntax
DOWNLOAD SSHKEY <url>
Description
Downloads an authorized key file to use with Secure Shell 2, which can contain the public keys
for the built-in Administrator user. Supported protocols are http, ftp, and tftp. The url should be
formatted as protocol://host/path/file. If your ftp server does not support anonymous
connections, then you can specify a username and password by replacing the host part in the
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