4.3 Login and logout

This section describes login and logout procedures.

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(1) Logging In

When a switch starts, a login page appears. Enter your user name and password. If authentication is successful, a command prompt appears. If authentication fails, the message Login incorrect appears and you cannot log in. The figure below shows the login window.

For the initial deployment, you can log in with the user name operator, without needing a password.

Figure 4-4: Login screen
login: operator Password: ..1 No password is set. Please set password! ..2 Copyright (c) 20XX ALAXALA Networks Corporation. All rights reserved. > ..3

If the password is not set, you can log in only with a line feed.

The actual characters in the password are not shown.
This message is displayed when logged in as a user (including operator) with no password set on the Switch.
The command prompt appears.

(2) Logout

To log out after completing operations via the CLI, execute the logout command or the exit command. The figure below shows the logout page.

Figure 4-5: Logout screen
> logout login:

(3) Automatic logout

You are automatically logged out if there is no key input for a set duration (default: 60 minutes). You can change the auto-logout time using the username configuration command or the set exec-timeout operation command.