Auth-Mac Password - Allied Telesis AT-IX5-28GPX Manual

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AUTH MAC PASSWORD

auth-mac password

Overview This command changes the password for MAC-based authentication.
Use the no variant of this command to return the password to its default.
Syntax
auth-mac [encrypted] password <password>
no auth-mac password
Default By default, the password is the MAC address of the supplicant
Mode Global Configuration
Usage Changing the password increases the security of MAC-based authentication,
because the default password is easy for an attacker to discover. This is particularly
important if:
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Examples To change the password to verySecurePassword, use the commands:
awplus#
awplus(config)#
Validation show running-config
Command
Related auth two-step enable
Commands
show auth-mac
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Parameter Description
MAC-based authentication
auth-mac
Specify an encrypted password
encrypted
Configure the password
password
The new password. Passwords can be up to 64 characters in length
<password>
and can contain any printable characters except
• ?
• " (double quotes)
• space
some MAC-based supplicants on the network are intelligent devices, such as
computers, and/or
you are using two-step authentication (see the "Ensuring Authentication
Methods Require Different Usernames and Passwords" section of the
Authentication Feature Overview and Configuration
configure terminal
auth-mac password verySecurePassword
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