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Local accounts
The admin and root are equivalent users but named differently to address users familiar with
either Avocent or Cyclades™ appliances. Regular users can be granted permissions by
administrators at any time. The virtual console server has three user account types:
• 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 virtual
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. In the virtual console server, the root user is a member of the admin group and shell-
login-profile groups. When a root user logs in via 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.
• Administrator-added regular users: Have limited access to the web manager features based
on the group(s) to which they are assigned. Users can change their own passwords. By
default, all users have access to all enabled ports.
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. If you wish 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.
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