DES-1210-28/ME Metro Ethernet Managed Switch CLI Reference Guide
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password. Up to 31 accounts can be created. You can enter
username and Enter. In this case, the system prompts for the
account’s password, which may be between 0 and 15 characters.
Alternatively, you can enter the username and password on the
same line.
Parameters
admin − Name of the administrator account.
oper − Specify an operator level account.
user − Specify a user account with read-only permissions.
<username 1-15> − The account username may be between 1 and
15 characters.
password <password_string> {encrypted} - the account password
can be included, and (optionally) can be encrypted.
Restrictions Only Administrator level users can issue this command.
Usernames can be between 1 and 15 characters.
Passwords can be between 0 and 15 characters.
NOTE: You are not required to enter a User Name. However, if you do not enter a User Name,
you cannot perform the following actions:
Create a monitor or operator (level 1 or level 14) users until an administrator user (level 15) is
defined.
Delete the last administrator user if there are monitor and/or operator users defined.
Example usage:
To create an administrator-level user account with the username ‘dlink’:
DES-1210-28/ME:5# create account admin dlink
Command: create account admin dlink
Enter a case-sensitive new password:*****
Enter the new password again for confirmation:*****
Success.
DES-1210-28/ME:5#
config account
Purpose To change the password for an existing user account.
Syntax
config account <username 15>
Description
The config account command changes the password for a user
account that has been created using the create account command.
The system prompts for the account’s new password, which may be
between 0 and 15 characters.
Parameters
<username 1-15> − the account username.
Restrictions Only Administrator-level users can issue this command.
Example usage:
To configure the user password of ‘dlink’ account: