3-2 CHAPTER 3: ACCESSING THE SWITCHAdministrator AccessLevelAn administrator-level account can view and change all Switchparameters, add and delete users, and change the passwordassociated with any account name. The administrator can disconnect aTelnet management session. If this happens, the user is notified thatthe session has been terminated.If you have logged on with administrator access level, thecommand-line prompt ends with a (#) sign. For example:3C16910#If an asterisk (*) appears in front of the command-line prompt, itindicates that you have outstanding configuration changes that havenot been saved. For example:*3C16910#Default Accounts By default, the Switch is configured with two accounts, as shown inTable 3-1.The default accounts do not have passwords assigned to them.Passwords must have a minimum of 4 characters and can have amaximum of 12 characters.Adding a Password to the Default admin AccountTo add a password to the default admin account, follow these steps:1 Logon to the Switch using the name admin.2 At the password prompt, press [Return].3 Add a default admin password by typing the following:config account adminTable 3-1 Default AccountsUser Name Access Leveladmin This user can access and change all manageableparameters. The admin account cannot be deleted.user This user can view (but not change) all manageableparameters, with the following exceptions:n This user cannot view the user account database.n This user cannot view the SNMP community strings.This user has access to the ping command.
