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xStack® DES-3528/DES-3552 Series Layer 2 Fast Ethernet Managed Switch CLI Reference Guide
create account
Syntax
Description
Parameters
Restrictions
Example usage:
To create an administrator-level user account with the username "dlink".
DES-3528:admin# create account admin dlink
Command: create account admin dlink
Enter a case-sensitive new password:****
Enter the new password again for confirmation:****
Success.
DES-3528:admin#
NOTICE: In case of lost passwords or password corruption, please refer to the D-Link website and
the White Paper entitled "Password Recovery Procedure", which will guide you through the steps
necessary to resolve this issue.
config account
Purpose
Syntax
Description
Parameters
Restrictions
Example usage:
To configure the user password of "dlink" account:
create account [admin | operator | power_user | user] <username 15>
This command is used to create user accounts that consist of a username of 1 to 15
characters and a password of 0 to 15 characters. Up to 8 user accounts can be created.
admin – Specifies that the user account will be set to admin.
operator – Specifies that the user account will be set to operator.
power_user – Specifies that the user account will be set to power user.
user – Specifies that the user account will be set to user.
<username 15> - Enter the account username here. This name can be up to 15 characters
long.
Only Administrator-level users can issue this command.
Usernames can be between 1 and 15 characters.
Passwords can be between 0 and 15 characters.
Used to configure user accounts
config account <username> {encrypt [plain_text | sha_1] <password>}
When the password information is not specified in the command, the system will prompt the
user to input the password interactively. For this case, the user can only input the plain text
password.
If the password is present in the command, the user can select to input the password in the
plain text form or in the encrypted form. The encryption algorithm is based on SHA-I.
<username> − Name of the account. The account must already be defined.
plain_text − Select to specify the password in plain text form.
sha_1 − Select to specify the password in the SHA-I enacrpted form.
password − The password for the user account.
The length for of password in plain-text form and in encrypted form are different. For the
plain-text form, passwords must have a minimum of 0 character and can have a maximum of
15 characters. For the encrypted form password, the length is fixed to 35 bytes long. The
assword is case-sensitive.
Only Administrator-level users can issue this command.
Usernames can be between 1 and 15 characters.
Passwords can be between 0 and 15 characters.
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