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Managing system users and groups 215
Table 47
Managing user accounts and passwords (cont’d.)
/cfg/sys/user
followed by:
add <username> Adds a user account to the system. The maximum
length of the user name is 255 characters. No spaces
are allowed.
After adding a user account, you must also assign the
user account to a group (see
“Managing user groups”
(page 217) ).
You must have administrator rights in order to add user
accounts.
edit <username> Accesses the User <username> menu, in order
change user settings (see “Managing user settings”
(page 216) ).
You must have administrator rights in order to change
a user’s settings. You must also be a member of the
first group listed for the other user.
caphrase Sets the certificate administrator’s passphrase for
encrypted private keys in a configuration backup, if the
certificate administrator role has been separated from
the administrator role.
If the admin user is a member of the certadmin group
(the default setting), the admin user is prompted for
an export passphrase to protect the private keys in
the configuration dump each time the
/cfg/ptcfg
command is used.
Set a certificate administrator export passphrase
only if the admin user has removed himself or herself
from the certadmin group and added a certificate
administrator user with certadmin group rights.
When a configuration backup is performed using
the
/cfg/ptcfg command, the certadmin export
passphrase is automatically used (without prompting
the user) to protect the encrypted private keys. When
the
/cfg/gtcfg command is used to restore a
configuration backup from a file exchange server, the
user is prompted for the correct certadmin passphrase,
as defined using the
caphrase command.
Nortel Secure Network Access Switch
Using the Command Line Interface
NN47230-100 03.01 Standard
28 July 2008
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