Users Guide

Version Description
8.3.17.0 Supported on the M I/O Aggregator.
Example
Dell#ssh 10.16.151.48 -l anvltest
Trying 10.16.151.48...
01:18:16: %STKUNIT0-M:CP %SEC-5-SSH_USAGE: Initiated SSH Client v2 (FIPS
Disabled) to anvltest@10.16.151.48 by default from console
anvltest@10.16.151.48's password:
Last login: Thu Jan 5 00:17:47 2012 from login-maa-101
[anvltest@dt-maa-linux-1 ~]# exit
logout
Dell#
username
Establish an authentication system based on user names.
Syntax
username name access-list-name [nopassword | {password | secret | sha256-
password} [encryption-type] password] [privilege level]
If you do not want a specic user to enter a password, use the nopassword option.
To delete authentication for a user, use the no username name command.
Parameters
name Enter a text string for the name of the user up to 63 characters.
access-list-name Enter the name of a congured access control list (either an IP access control list or MAC
access control list).
nopassword Enter the keyword nopassword to specify that the user should not enter a password.
password Enter the keyword password followed by the encryption-type or the password.
secret Enter the keyword secret followed by the encryption-type or the password.
encryption-type Enter an encryption type for the password that you enter.
• 0 directs Dell Networking OS to store the password as clear text. It is the default
encryption type when using the
password option.
• 8 to indicate that a password encrypted using a sha256 hashing algorithm follows.
This encryption type is available with the sha256-password option only, and is the
default encryption type for this option.
• 7 to indicate that a password encrypted using a DES hashing algorithm follows. This
encryption type is available with the password option only.
• 5 to indicate that a password encrypted using an MD5 hashing algorithm follow. This
encryption type is available with the secret option only, and is the default encryption
type for this option.
password Enter a string up to 32 characters long.
privilege level Enter the keyword privilege then a number from zero (0) to 15.
secret Enter the keyword secret then the encryption type.
sha256-password Enter the keyword sha256-password then the encryption-type or the password.
Defaults The default encryption type for the password option is 0. The default encryption type for the secret option is
5. The default encryption type for sha256-password option is 8.
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