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Cisco Content Services Switch Security Configuration Guide
OL-5650-02
Chapter 1 Controlling CSS Access
Creating Usernames and Passwords
Creating Usernames and Passwords
Logging into the CSS requires a username and password. The CSS supports a
maximum of 32 usernames, including the administrator and technician
usernames. You can assign each user with SuperUser or User status.
• User - Allows access to a limited set of commands that enable you to monitor
and display CSS parameters, but not change them. A User prompt ends with
the > symbol.
• SuperUser - Allows access to the full set of CLI commands, including those
in User mode, that enable you to configure the CSS. A SuperUser prompt
ends with the # symbol.
From SuperUser mode, you can enter global configuration mode and its
subordinate configuration modes. If you do not specify superuser when
configuring a new user, the new user has only user-level status by default.
Caution Creating or modifying a username and password is restricted to CSS users who
are identified as either administrators or technicians, and it is contingent on
whether the restrict user-database command has been entered.
Use the username command to create usernames and passwords to log in to the
CSS. The syntax for this global configuration mode command is:
username name [des-password|password] password {superuser}
{dir-access access}
The following example creates a SuperUser named picard with a password of
captain.
(config)# username picard password “captain” superuser
The options and variables are as follows:
• name - Sets the username you want to assign or change. Enter an unquoted
text string with no spaces and a maximum of 16 characters. To see a list of
existing usernames, enter username ?.
• des-password - Specifies the password is Data Encryption Standard (DES)
encrypted. Use this option only when you are creating a file for use as a script
or a startup configuration file. Enter the DES password as a case-sensitive
unquoted text string 6 to 64 characters in length.