Security and authentication
11.1 User management
SCALANCE XM-400/XR-500 Command Line Interface (CLI)
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user-account-ext
Description
With this command you link a user with a role in the table "External User Accounts". The
user is defined on RADIUS server. The roll is defined locally on the device.
When a RADIUS server authenticates a user, the corresponding group however is unknown
or does not exist, the device checks whether or not there is an entry for the user in the table
"External User Accounts". If an entry exists, the user is logged in with the rights of the
associated role. If the corresponding group is known on the device, both tables are
evaluated. The user is assigned the role with the higher rights.
You are in the Global configuration mode.
The command prompt is as follows:
cli(config)#
Call up the command with the following parameters:
user-account-ext <user-name-ext> role <user-role-ext> [description <user-ext-
description>]
The parameters have the following meaning:
Keyword for a user in the table
-
User name Enter the name for the user. The name
must meet the following conditions:
• It must be unique.
• It must be between 1 and 250 charac-
ters long.
Keyword for the role name
Role name Enter a role.
You can choose between system-defined
Keyword for the description
description
Content of the description Enter a description for the user in the
table "External User Accounts". The de-
scription text can be up to 100 characters