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Quidway S3900 Series Ethernet Switches-Release 1510  Chapter 3  Logging in through Telnet
 
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3-5 
Operation  Command  Description 
Set the timeout 
time of the VTY 
user interface 
idle-timeout  minutes 
[ seconds ] 
Optional 
The default timeout time of a 
user interface is 10 minutes. 
With the timeout time being 
10 minutes, the connection to 
a user interface is terminated 
if no operation is performed in 
the user interface within 10 
minutes. 
You can use the idle-timeout 
0 command to disable the 
timeout function. 
 
Note that if you configure not to authenticate the users, the command level available to 
users logging into a switch depends on both the authentication-mode none command 
and the user privilege level level command, as listed in 
Table 3-5. 
Table 3-5 Determine the command level when users logging into switches are not 
authenticated 
Scenario 
Authentication 
mode 
User type  Command 
Command 
level 
The  user privilege level 
level command is not 
executed 
Level 0 
None 
(authenticatio
n-mode none) 
VTY users 
The  user privilege level 
level command is already 
executed 
Determined 
by the level 
argument 
 
3.2.2  Configuration Example 
I. Network requirements 
Assume that you are a level 3 AUX user and want to perform the following configuration 
for Telnet users logging into VTY 0: 
Do not authenticate users logging into VTY 0. 
Commands of level 2 are available to users logging into VTY 0. 
Telnet protocol is supported. 
The screen can contain up to 30 lines. 
The history command buffer can contain up to 20 commands. 
The timeout time of VTY 0 is 6 minutes.