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Local accounts
The admin and root are equivalent users but named differently to address users familiar with
either Avocent equipment or the Cyclades families of console servers. Regular users can be
granted permissions by administrators at any time. The console server has two local user
accounts by factory default.
• admin: Performs the initial network configuration. The factory default password for admin
is avocent. The admin user is a member of the admin group and can configure the console
server and ports as well as user and group authorizations.
• root: Has the same permissions as the admin user. The factory default password for root is
linux. The root user is a member of the admin and shell-login-profile groups. When a root
user logs in via the CONSOLE port, SSH or telnet, the session is pre-defined by the login
profile to go directly to shell. The login profile can be customized so that it does not go
directly to shell.
To add new users:
1. Click Users - Local Accounts - User Names. The User Names screen is displayed with a list
of all users.
2. Click Add. The Local User Information screen is displayed.
3. Enter the new username and enter a password, then confirm the password.
4. Select or deselect User must change password at the next login checkbox.
5. To add the user to an available user group, select the user group name in the box on the
left and click Add (user is the default group). You can remove a user group from the box at
right by selecting it and clicking Remove.
6. Enter the desired parameters for Password Expiration.
• Min Days: Enter the minimum number of days allowed between password changes.
Password changes attempted sooner will be rejected. If not specified, -1 is the default
which disables the restriction.
• Max Days: Enter the maximum number of days a password is valid. After this period, a
password change will be forced. If not specified, -1 is the default which disables the
restriction.
• Warning Days: Enter the number of days that a warning is issued to the user prior to
expiration. Entering 0 will cause the warning to be issued on the expiration day. A
negative value or no value means that no warning will be issued.
7. Enter the desired Account Expiration date (YYYY-MM-DD).
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