Setting passwords, Setting a telnet password, Setting passwords for management privilege levels – Brocade TurboIron 24X Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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Setting passwords

Setting passwords

Passwords can be used to secure the following access methods:

Telnet access can be secured by setting a Telnet password. Refer to

“Setting a Telnet

password”

on page 74.

Access to the Privileged EXEC and CONFIG levels of the CLI can be secured by setting
passwords for management privilege levels. Refer to

“Setting passwords for management

privilege levels”

on page 74.

This section also provides procedures for enhancing management privilege levels, recovering from
a lost password, and disabling password encryption.

NOTE

You also can configure up to 16 user accounts consisting of a user name and password, and assign
each user account a management privilege level. Refer to

“Setting up local user accounts”

on

page 78.

Setting a Telnet password

By default, the device does not require a user name or password when you log in to the CLI using
Telnet. You can assign a password for Telnet access using one of the following methods.

Set the password “letmein” for Telnet access to the CLI using the following command at the global
CONFIG level.

TurboIron(config)#enable telnet password letmein

Syntax: [no] enable telnet password <string>

Suppressing Telnet connection rejection messages

By default, if a device denies Telnet management access to the device, the software sends a
message to the denied Telnet client. You can optionally suppress the rejection message. When you
enable the option, a denied Telnet client does not receive a message from the device. Instead, the
denied client simply does not gain access.

To suppress the connection rejection message, use the following CLI method.

To suppress the connection rejection message sent by the device to a denied Telnet client, enter
the following command at the global CONFIG level of the CLI.

TurboIron(config)#telnet server suppress-reject-message

Syntax: [no] telnet server suppress-reject-message

Setting passwords for management privilege levels

You can set one password for each of the following management privilege levels:

Super User level – Allows complete read-and-write access to the system. This is generally for
system administrators and is the only management privilege level that allows you to configure
passwords.

Port Configuration level – Allows read-and-write access for specific ports but not for global
(system-wide) parameters.

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