H3C Technologies H3C S7500E Series Switches - Manual (Page 47)

3-8
Configuration procedure
Follow these steps to configure password authentication for console login:
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enters system view system-view —
Enter AUX user interface view
user-interface aux first-number
[ last-number ]
—
Configure the authentication mode
as local password authentication
authentication-mode password
Required
By default, you can log in to the
device through the console port
without authentication and have
user privilege level 3 after login.
Set the local password
set authentication password
{ cipher | simple } password
Required
By default, no local password is
set.
Configure common settings for
AUX user interface view
—
Optional
See Configuring Common Settings
for Console Login (Optional) .
After the configuration, when you log in to the device through the console port at the next time, you are
prompted to enter a login password. A prompt such as <H3C> appears after you input the password
and press Enter, as shown in Figure 3-7 .
Figure 3-7 Configuration page