Allied Telesis AlliedWare Plus Operating System Version 5.4.4C (x310-26FT,x310-26FP,x310-50FT,x310-50FP) - Manual (Page 1157)

Authentication Commands
Software Reference for x310 Series Switches
C613-50046-01 REV A AlliedWare Plus TM Operating System - Version 5.4.4C 43.31
auth-mac password
This command changes the password for MAC-based authentication.
Use the no variant of this command to return the password to its default.
Syntax auth-mac [encrypted] password <password>
no auth-mac password
Default By default, the password is the MAC address of the supplicant
Mode Global Configuration
Usage Changing the password increases the security of MAC-based authentication, because the
default password is easy for an attacker to discover. This is particularly important if:
■ some MAC-based supplicants on the network are intelligent devices, such as
computers, and/or
■ you are using Two-step authentication (see “Ensuring Authentication Methods
Require Different Usernames and Passwords” on page 42.22 )
Examples To change the password to verySecurePassword, use the commands:
Validation
Command show running-config
Related Commands auth two-step enable
show auth-mac
Parameter Description
auth-mac MAC-Based Authentication
encrypted Specify an encrypted password
password Configure the password
<password>
The new password. Passwords can be up to 64 characters in length
and can contain any printable characters except
■ ?
■ " (double quotes) and
■
space
awplus# configure terminal
awplus(config)# auth-mac password verySecurePassword