Required Privilege
Level
admin—To view this statement in the configuration.
admin-control—To add this statement to the configuration.
Related
Documentation
•
Limiting the Number of User Login Attempts for SSH and Telnet Sessions
•
rate-limit on page 591
root-authentication
Syntax
root-authentication {
(encrypted-password "password" | plain-text-password);
ssh-dsa "public-key";
ssh-rsa "public-key";
}
Hierarchy Level
[edit system]
Release Information
Statement introduced before Junos OS Release 7.4.
Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 9.0 for EX Series switches.
Description
Configure the authentication methods for the root-level user, whose username is
root
.
Options
encrypted-password "password"
— MD5 or other encrypted authentication. Specify the
MD5 or other password. You can specify only one encrypted password.
You cannot configure a blank password for
encrypted-password
using blank quotation
marks (" "). You must configure a password whose number of characters range from
1 through 128 characters and enclose the password in quotation marks.
plain-text-password
—Plain-text password. The CLI prompts you for the password and
then encrypts it. The CLI displays the encrypted version, and the software places the
encrypted version in its user database. You can specify only one plain-text password.
ssh-dsa "public-key"
—SSH version 2 authentication. Specify the DSA (SSH version 2)
public key. You can specify one or more public keys.
ssh-rsa "public-key"
—SSH version 1 authentication. Specify the RSA (SSH version 1 and
SSH version 2) public key. You can specify one or more public keys.
Required Privilege
Level
admin—To view this statement in the configuration.
admin-control—To add this statement to the configuration.
Related
Documentation
•
Configuring the Root Password
•
authentication on page 512
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