Operation Manual – Login
Quidway S3900 Series Ethernet Switches-Release 1510 Chapter 3 Logging in through Telnet
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3-8
Operation Command Description
Set the timeout
time of the 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 to authenticate the users in the password mode, the
command level available to users logging into a switch depends on both the
authentication-mode password command and the user privilege level level
command, as listed in
Table 3-7.
Table 3-7 Determine the command level when users logging into switches are
authenticated in the password mode
Scenario
Authentication
mode
User type Command
Command
level
The user privilege level level
command not executed
Level 0
Password
(authentication-
mode
password)
VTY users
The user privilege level level
command already executed
Determined
by the level
argument
3.3.2 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:
z Authenticate users logging into VTY 0 using the local password.
z Set the local password to 123456 (in plain text).
z Commands of level 2 are available to users logging into VTY 0.
z Telnet protocol is supported.
z The screen can contain up to 30 lines.
z The history command buffer can contain up to 20 commands.
z The timeout time of VTY 0 is 6 minutes.