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Chapter 2
Configuring CSS Basics
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des-password - Specifies that the password you enter is the Data Encryption
Standard (DES) form of the password. Use this option only when you are
creating a script or a startup configuration file. Enter a DES-encrypted,
case-sensitive, unquoted text string with no spaces from 6 to 64 characters.
If you specify the des-password option, you must know the
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encrypted form of the password to successfully log in to the CSS. You
can find the CSS encrypted password in the Global section of the
running-config. To display the running-config, use the show
running-config command.
password - Specifies that the password is not encrypted on your display as
you enter it. However, the CSS DES-encrypts the password in the
running-config for extra security. Use this option when you use the CLI to
create users. Enter a case-sensitive, unquoted text string with no spaces from
6 to 16 characters.
password - The text string that you enter. The CSS allows all special
characters in a password except for the percent sign (%).
superuser - Specifies SuperUser privileges to allow a user to access
SuperUser mode. If you do not enter this option, the user can access only User
mode.
dir-access - (Optional) Defines the CSS directory access privileges for the
username. There are access privileges assigned to the seven CSS directories,
in the following order: Script, Log, Root (installed CSS software), Archive,
Release Root (configuration files), Core, and MIBs. By default, users have
both read- and write-access privileges (B) to all seven directories.
Administrators or technicians can use the dir-access option to selectively
implement a set of directory access privileges for each user. Changing the
access level also affects the use of the CLI commands associated with
directories.
To use the dir-access option, you must first specify the restrict
user-database command to implement security restrictions for the CSS user
database (refer to the Cisco Content Services Switch Administration Guide).
Cisco Content Services Switch Getting Started Guide
Creating Usernames and Passwords
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