Digi CM User Manual

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Administering Users

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Chapter 6

4. Click Apply changes.

User Fields

Field

Description

User name

Name for the user, which must be between 3 and 29
characters and cannot include colons (:), less than or greater
than signs (< >), ampersand (&), spaces, or quotation marks.

The at sign @ and period . are acceptable.

The username on the Digi CM is case sensitive.

Select group

Group to which the user is assigned. Groups include Root,
System Admin, Port Admin and User. See "User Groups" on
page 11
for more information

Password

Password to assign to the user. This must conform to the
rules stipulated above for a user name.

Confirm password

Confirms the password.

Shell program

Interface presented to the user when he/she logs on to the
system from a Telnet or SSH connection.

SSH public key
authentication

Alternative method of identifying yourself to a login server.
More secure than just a password.

SSH public key to
use

Current public file key or create a new public file key

Select new SSH
public key version

SSH1 only supports one type of key

SSH2 supports both RSA and DSA key types

Select new SSH
public key file

Location for the SSH public key file

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