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Setting Access and Security
This chapter describes the following Access and Security features:
• “Understanding Access and Accounts” on page 45
• “Managing Access and Accounts” on page 47
• “About Partitions” on page 53
• “Create Partitions (CLI)” on page 56
or
• “Create Partitions (GUI)” on page 57
• “About SSH” on page 59
Understanding Access and Accounts
About User Accounts
A user account is used to control who gains access to the Topspin system. Access can be achieved
through the CLI (console, telnet, SSH) and SNMP. CLI access is authorized through a password
validation. SNMP access is authorized through a community-string validation.
User accounts can be added, deleted, and modified as needed. Up to 15 user accounts are supported.
Only user(s) that have the unrestricted ReadWrite permission level can add, delete, and modify user
accounts. Each Topspin system is preconfigured with three factory default user accounts.
Each user account can be administratively enabled and disabled as needed. The user can disable a user
account without having to delete it from the system.
Each user account is uniquely identified by an ascii string that can be up to 20 characters long. No two
user accounts can have the same user name.
