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User Account
Configuration
User accounts and their respective passwords are the first line of switch security.
A user account consists of an account name, an authority level, and an expiration
date. Switches come from the factory with certain user accounts defined for
special purposes.
Table 3-1
describes these accounts, their passwords, and their
purposes. These accounts cannot be deleted from the switch.
This section describes the following user account configuration tasks:
Displaying User Account Information
Creating User Accounts
Modifying User Accounts and Passwords
Table 3-1. Factory User Accounts
User
Account
Name
Password
Purpose
admin
password
Provides access to the Telnet server for managing the
switch. Admin is the only account name that has per-
mission to create and modify other user accounts. To
secure your admin user account, be sure to change
the password for this account.
images
images
Provides access to the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
server for exchanging files between the switch and
the workstation.
prom
prom
Provides access to the Maintenance mode menu to
perform switch recovery tasks. Refer to the
SANbox
5600 Series Fibre Channel Switch Installation Guide
for information about using Maintenance mode.
Summary of Contents for SANbox 5600 Series
Page 50: ...4 Network Configuration Managing IP Security 4 20 59183 03 A S Notes...
Page 82: ...5 Switch Configuration Managing Idle Session Timers 5 32 59183 03 A S Notes...
Page 98: ...6 Port Configuration Testing a Port 6 16 59183 03 A S Notes...
Page 148: ...11 Event Log Configuration Creating and Downloading a Log File 11 8 59183 03 A S Notes...
Page 166: ...12 Call Home Configuration Resetting the Call Home Database 12 18 59183 03 A S Notes...
