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Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Guide
Accessing the Nortel SNAS 4050 cluster
To enable better Nortel SNAS 4050 management and user accountability, there
are five categories of users who can access the Nortel SNAS 4050 cluster:
are five categories of users who can access the Nortel SNAS 4050 cluster:
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The Operator is granted read access only to the menus and information
appropriate to this user access level. The Operator cannot make any changes
to the configuration.
appropriate to this user access level. The Operator cannot make any changes
to the configuration.
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The Administrator can make any changes to the Nortel SNAS 4050
configuration. Thus, the Administrator has read and write access to all menus,
information, and configuration commands in the Nortel SNAS 4050 software.
configuration. Thus, the Administrator has read and write access to all menus,
information, and configuration commands in the Nortel SNAS 4050 software.
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A Certificate Administrator is a member of the certadmin group. A Certificate
Administrator has sufficient user rights to manage certificates and private
keys. By default, only the Administrator user is a member of the certadmin
group. To separate the Certificate Administrator user role from the
Administrator user role, the Administrator user can add a new user account to
the system, assign the new user to the certadmin group, and then remove
himself or herself from the certadmin group. For more information, see
Administrator has sufficient user rights to manage certificates and private
keys. By default, only the Administrator user is a member of the certadmin
group. To separate the Certificate Administrator user role from the
Administrator user role, the Administrator user can add a new user account to
the system, assign the new user to the certadmin group, and then remove
himself or herself from the certadmin group. For more information, see
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The Boot user can perform a reinstallation only. For security reasons, it is
only possible to log on as the Boot user through the console port using
terminal emulation software. The default Boot user password is
only possible to log on as the Boot user through the console port using
terminal emulation software. The default Boot user password is
ForgetMe.
The Boot user password cannot be changed from the default.
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The Root user is granted full access to the underlying Linux operating system.
For security reasons, it is only possible to log on as the Root user through the
console port using terminal emulation software. Reserve Root user access for
advanced troubleshooting purposes, under guidance from Nortel customer
support.
For security reasons, it is only possible to log on as the Root user through the
console port using terminal emulation software. Reserve Root user access for
advanced troubleshooting purposes, under guidance from Nortel customer
support.
For more information, see
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