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Setting passwords for management privilege levels, Setting passwords for management, Privilege levels – Brocade Virtual ADX Administration Guide (Supporting ADX v03.1.00) User Manual

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Suppressing Telnet connection rejection messages

By default, if a Brocade Virtual ADX 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 Brocade
Virtual ADX. Instead, the denied client simply does not gain access.

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.

Virtual ADX(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.

Read Only level – Allows access to the Privileged EXEC mode and CONFIG mode of the CLI but
only with read access.

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

“Setting up local user accounts”

on page 67.

NOTE

You must use the CLI to assign a password for management privilege levels. You cannot assign a
password using the Web Management Interface.

If you configure user accounts in addition to privilege level passwords, the device will validate a
user’s access attempt using one or both methods (local user account or privilege level password),
depending on the order you specify in the authentication-method lists. Refer to

“Configuring

authentication-method lists”

on page 99.

To set passwords for management privilege levels.

1. At the opening CLI prompt, enter the following command to change to the Privileged level of the

EXEC mode.

Virtual ADX>enable

Virtual ADX#

2. Access the CONFIG level of the CLI by entering the following command.

Virtual ADX#configure terminal

Virtual ADX(config)#

3. Enter the following command to set the Super User level password.

Virtual ADX(config)#enable super-user-password text