FW 08.01.00 McDATA E/OS Command Line Interface User Manual (620-000134-740, November 2005)

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CLI Commands
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config
Parameters This command has two required parameters and an additional
interface parameter before the password parameter at the prompt
after the command:
NOTE: Currently the only possible combination of multiple interfaces is
(Web and CLI) or (E_port or N_port).
Command Example Root> config security authentication user modify
01:2A:3f:4:5:0:0 nport
config.security.authentication.user.role
Syntax role username privilegeLevel
username The existing user name whose fields will be
modified in the local authentication database.
If the entered user name does not exist in the
user database, an error will be shown. This
parameter can be from 1-23 characters in
length for an API, web or CLI user name.
E_Port and N_Port user names must be
entered as a standard colon-delimited WWN.
All characters in the printable USASCII
character set are valid with the exception of
spaces, single quotes, and double quotes.
interfaces This is a list of interfaces that will be assigned
to the associated user name. Accepted values
for this parameter are:
cli
web
api
eport
nport.
password Sets the password for the existing username.
This parameter can be from 1-24 characters in
length for a Web or CLI user name. CHAP
secrets must be exactly 16 bytes long for API,
OSMS, E_Port, and N_Port interfaces. This
parameter will not be echoed to the screen.
See Passwords and Secrets on page 1-15 for
valid characters.