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Local accounts

The admin and root accounts are equivalent users but named differently to address users

familiar with either Avocent or Cyclades equipment. Regular users can be granted permissions

by administrators at any time. The PM PDU has three user account types:

• admin: Performs the initial network configuration. The factory default password for admin

is avocent. The admin user is a member of the admin group and can configure the PM PDU

as well as user and group authorizations.

• root: Has the same permissions as the admin user. The factory default password for root is

linux. In the PM PDU, the root user is a member of the admin group and shell-login-profile

groups. When a root user logs in via the CONSOLE port, SSH or telnet, the session is pre-

defined by the login profile to go directly to shell. The login profile can be customized so

that it does not go directly to shell.

NOTE: Change the default passwords for root and admin before you put the PM PDU into operation.

• Administrator-added regular users: Have limited access to the web manager features based

on the group(s) to which they are assigned. Users can change their own passwords.

To add new users:

1. Click Users - Local Accounts - User Names. The User Names screen is displayed with a list

of all users.

2. Click Add The Local User Information screen is displayed.

3. Enter the new username and enter a password, then confirm the password.

4. Select or deselect User must change password at the next login checkbox.

5. If you wish to add the user to an available user group, select the user group name in the

box on the left and click Add (user is the default group). You can remove a user group from

the box at right by selecting it and clicking Remove.

6. Enter the desired parameters for Password Expiration.

• Min Days: Enter the minimum number of days allowed between password changes.

Password changes attempted sooner will be rejected. If not specified, -1 is the default

which disables the restriction.

• Max Days: Enter the maximum number of days a password is valid. After this period, a

password change will be forced. If not specified, -1 is the default which disables the

restriction.

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