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Configuring User Accounts with the C-Web Interface

User accounts provide one way for users to access the system. For each account, you define the login name for the user, properties for the user account, and authentication information. After you create an account, the software creates a home directory for the user when the user logs in to the system for the first time.

Each user has a home directory on the C-series Controller, which is created the first time that the user logs in. Home directories that have the same name as the user ID are created in the /var/home directory; for example, the home directory for a user with the user ID Chris_Bee is /var/home/Chris_Bee.

Configuring a User Account

To configure a user account:

  1. Click Configure, expand System, and then click Login.

The Login pane appears.

  1. From the Create New list, select User.
  2. Type a name for the user in the dialog box, and click OK.

The User pane appears.

  1. Enter information as described in the Help text in the main pane, and click Apply.

Configuring Authentication for User Accounts

You can configure the following types of authentication for user accounts:

If you configure a plain text password, you are prompted to enter and confirm the password.

Configuring a Plain Text Password

To configure a plain text password for a user account:

  1. Click Configure, expand System, and then click Login.

The Login pane appears.

  1. From the side pane, expand a user account, and click Authentication.
  2. Click Create, enter information as described in the Help text in the main pane, and then click Apply.

Configuring SSH Authentication

Before you configure SSH authentication, obtain the contents of SSH key files. You can copy the contents of an SSH keys file into a CLI session:

  1. Click Configure, expand System, and then click Login.

The Login pane appears.

  1. From the side pane, expand a user account, and click Authentication.
  2. Click Create, enter information as described in the Help text in the main pane, and then click Apply.

Changing the root Password

You can change the root password only with the SRC CLI. For more information, see SRC-PE Getting Started Guide, Chapter 24, Configuring User Access with the SRC CLI.


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