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Login: respructure chapters Local and RADIUS

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.. _systemusers:
System Users
------------
Login
-----
The default vyos user account, as well as newly created user accounts, have all
capabilities to configure the system. All accounts have sudo capabilities and
therefore can operate as root on the system. Setting the level to admin is
The default VyOS user account (`vyos`), as well as newly created user accounts,
have all capabilities to configure the system. All accounts have sudo capabilities
and therefore can operate as root on the system. Setting the level to admin is
optional, all accounts on the system will have admin privileges.
Both local administered and remote administered RADIUS (Remote Authentication
Dial-In User Service) accounts are supported.
Creating Login User Accounts
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Local
^^^^^
Create user account `jsmith` and the password `mypassword`.
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level admin
}
SSH Access using Shared Public Keys
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SSH with Public Keys
********************
The following command will load the public key `dev.pub` for user `jsmith`
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loadkey jsmith scp://devuser@dev001.vyos.net/home/devuser/.ssh/dev.pub
RADIUS authentication backend
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In addition SSH public keys can be fully added using the CLI. Each key can be
given a unique identifier, `calypso` is used oin the example below to id an SSH
key.
.. code-block:: sh
set system login user jsmith authentication public-keys callisto key 'AAAAB3Hso...Q=='
set system login user jsmith authentication public-keys callisto type 'ssh-rsa'
RADIUS
^^^^^^
VyOS supports using one or more RADIUS servers as backend for user authentication.