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Users Manual of CS-6306R
6.1.4.3 Configuring Message Banners for AAA Authentication
AAA supports the use of configurable, personalized login and failed-login banners. You can configure
message banners that will be displayed when a user logs in to the system to be authenticated using AAA and
when, for whatever reason, authentication fails.
6.1.4.4 Configuring a Login Banner
To configure a banner that will be displayed whenever a user logs in (replacing the default message for login),
use the following commands in global configuration mode: :
Command Purpose
aaa authentication bannerdelimiter
text-string delimiter
Creates a personalized login banner.
6.1.4.5 Configuring a Failed-Login Banner
To configure a message that will be displayed whenever a user fails login (replacing the default message for
failed login), use the following commands in global configuration mode: :
Command Purpose
aaa authentication
fail-messagedelimiter text-string
delimiter
Creates a message to be displayed
when a user fails login.
6.1.4.6 Instruction
To create a login banner, you need to configure a delimiting character, which notifies the system that the
following text string is to be displayed as the banner, and then the text string itself. The delimiting character is
repeated at the end of the text string to signify the end of the banner. The delimiting character can be any
single character in the extended ASCII character set, but once defined as the delimiter, that character cannot
be used in the text string making up the banner.
6.1.4.7 AAA authentication username-prompt
To change the text displayed when users are prompted to enter a username, use the aaa authentication
username-prompt command in global configuration mode. To return to the default username prompt text, use
the no form of this command. username:
The aaa authentication username-prompt command does not change any dialog that is supplied by a remote
TACACS+ server. Use the following command to configure in global configuration mode:
Command Purpose
aaa authentication username-prompt
text-string
String of text that will be displayed
when the user is prompted to enter an
username.