Configuring User Accounts And Rbac; Information About User Accounts And Rbac; About User Accounts - Cisco AP775A - Nexus Converged Network Switch 5010 Configuration Manual

Configuring User Accounts and RBAC

This chapter contains the following sections:
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Configuring User Accounts and RBAC
This section describes how to configure user accounts and role-based access control (RBAC) on the Cisco
Nexus 5000 Series switch.

Information About User Accounts and RBAC

You can create and manage users accounts and assign roles that limit access to operations on the Cisco Nexus
5000 Series switch. RBAC allows you to define the rules for an assign role that restrict the authorization that
the user has to access management operations.

About User Accounts

The following words are reserved and cannot be used to configure users: bin, daemon, adm, lp, sync,
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shutdown, halt, mail, news, uucp, operator, games, gopher, ftp, nobody, nscd, mailnull, rpc, rpcuser, xfs,
gdm, mtsuser, ftpuser, man, and sys.
Note User passwords are not displayed in the configuration files.
The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch does not support all numeric usernames, whether created with
Caution
TACACS+ or RADIUS, or created locally. Local users with all numeric names cannot be created. If an
all numeric user name exists on an AAA server and is entered during login, the user is not logged in.
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