McDATA® 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem Command Line Interface Guide (AA-RWEJA-TE, November 2006)

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2 User Account Configuration
User accounts and their respective passwords are the first line of switch security. A user account consists of
an account name, an authority level, and an expiration date. Switches come from the factory with certain
user accounts defined for special purposes. Table 3 describes these accounts, their passwords, and their
purposes. These accounts cannot be deleted from the switch.
This section describes the following user account configuration tasks:
• Displaying user account information, page 20
• Creating user accounts, page 20
• Modifying user accounts and passwords, page 21
Table 3 Factory user accounts
User Account
Name
Password Purpose
admin password This user account provides access to the Telnet server
for managing the switch. Admin is the only account
name that has permission to create and modify other
user accounts. To secure your admin user account, be
sure to change the password for this account.
images images This user account provides access to the File Transfer
Protocol (FTP) server for exchanging files between the
switch and the workstation.
prom prom This user account provides access to the
Maintenance menu while in Maintenance mode to
perform switch recovery tasks. Refer to the McDATA
4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem
installation guide for information about using
Maintenance mode.