Preventing Unauthorized Access To Your Access Point; Protecting Access To Privileged Exec Commands - Allen-Bradley Stratix 5100 User Manual

Preventing Unauthorized
Access to Your Access Point
Protecting Access to
Privileged EXEC Commands
You can prevent unauthorized users from reconfiguring the wireless device and
viewing configuration information. Typically, you want network administrators
to have access to the wireless device while you restrict access to users who connect
through a terminal or workstation from within the local network.
To prevent unauthorized access to the wireless device, configure one of these
security features:
• Username and password pairs, that are locally stored on the wireless device.
These pairs authenticate each user before that user can access the wireless
device. You can also assign a specific privilege level (read-only or read/
write) to each username and password pair.
• The default username is blank, and the default password is
Usernames and passwords are case-sensitive.
• For more information in CLI, see the
Password Pairs on page
TIP Characters TAB, ?, $, +, and [ are invalid characters for passwords.
• Username and password pairs stored centrally in a database on a security
server.
For more information, see the
RADIUS on page
For more information, see the
A simple way of providing terminal access control in your network is to use
passwords and assign privilege levels. Password protection restricts access to a
network or network device. Privilege levels define what commands users can issue
after they have logged into a network device.
For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this
chapter, see the Cisco IOS Security Command Reference for Release
Rockwell Automation Publication 1783-UM006A-EN-P - May 2014
Administering the WAP Access
Configuring Username and
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Controlling Access Point Access with
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Configuring Security on page
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