Radius Settings - Dell PowerConnect 5224 System User's Manual

Passwords
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RADIUS Settings

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Passwords
You should change the default passwords to be sure that your system is secure:
NOTE: The default user names are admin and guest, and the corresponding passwords are admin and guest. If you log in as guest (Normal Exec level),
you can only view page information and change the guest password. If you log in as admin (Privileged Exec level), you can apply changes on all pages.
Old Password — Type your current password.
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New Password — Type the new password. Passwords are limited to eight characters and are case sensitive.
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Confirm Password — Type the new password a second time to verify that you have typed it correctly.
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The password entered is encrypted on the screen and is displayed as a sequence of asterisks (*).
To save any changes you make in this page, click Apply Changes. If you don't want to save the changes, click Refresh.
CLI Commands
The following table summarizes the equivalent CLI commands for items in the Switch/Security/Passwords page.
Command Usage
enable password [level Use this command to control access to the Privileged Exec level from the Normal
level] {0 | 7} password Exec level. For the {0 | 7} parameter, 0 means plain password and 7 means
encrypted password. The Privileged Exec level is 15 and the default password is
super.
username name {access- Use this command to configure user name authentication at login. Use the no
level level | nopassword | form command to remove a user name. The device has two predefined privilege
password {0 | 7} levels: 0: Normal Exec and 15: Privileged Exec. The default user names are
password} admin for the Privileged Exec level, and guest for the Normal Exec level.
NOTE: Only the CLI allows user names to be created and deleted.
Example
Console(config)#enable password level 15 0 admin
Console(config)#username bob access-level 15
Console(config)#username bob password smith
Console(config)#
RADIUS Settings
Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service (RADIUS) is a system that uses a central server running RADIUS software to control access to RADIUS-aware
switches on the network. A RADIUS server can be used to create a database of multiple user name/password pairs with associated privilege levels for each
user or group that require management access to a switch using the console port, Telnet, or Internet.
When you are setting up privilege levels on the RADIUS server, level 0 allows Normal Exec access to the switch, and level 15 allows Privileged Exec access.
The RADIUS Settings page contains the following editable fields:
Authentication — Select the authentication, or authentication sequence, required:
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Radius — A RADIUS server authenticates the user.
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Local — The switch authenticates the user.
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Radius, Local — A RADIUS server attempts to authenticate the user first, and then the switch attempts to authenticate the user.
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