Specifications

Enterasys Wireless Controller Software CLI Reference Guide 17-1

users Commands

Thissectiondescribescommandsusedtocreateandmanageuseraccountsonthenetwork.These

commandsarefoundwithintheuserscontextoftheCLI.

Thefollowingcommandsareavailableintheuserscontext:

• id

• pwd

17.1 id

Usetheidcommandtocreateuseroradministratoraccountsonthesystem.Inconjunctionwith

theidcommand,youmustspecifyandconfirmapasswordfortheaccount.Thepasswordmust

be8–24alphanumericcharacterslong.

Syntax

id <userid> <admin|guestportal|readonly>

Parameters

Examples

Thefollowingexamplecreatestheread‐onlyuseraccount“abby”onthesystem

EWC.enterasys.com:users# id abby readonly

Please input password:

Please confirm password:

Successfully created user abby.

Thefollowingexamplecreatestheadministratoraccount“fred”onthesystem

EWC.enterasys.com:users# id fred admin

Note: All CLI commands cache changes. For this reason, sometimes when you make a change in a

particular context, the change may not be visible immediately. If this happens, you must exit and re-

enter the context in order to ensure that the database is synchronized with the latest change.

userid Specifiesanamefortheaccount

admin S etsaccounttypetoadministrator

guestportal Setsaccounttypetoguestportaladministrator

readonly Setsaccounttypetoreadonly