Creating an admin-role account

An admin-role account can execute all supported CLI commands.

The required parameters for creating an account are name, role, and password. In this example, the optional desc parameter is also utilized.

  1. In privileged EXEC mode, enter the configure terminal command.
    device# configure terminal
    
  2. Enter the username command, with the specified parameters.
    device(config)# username jsmith role admin password Tijd1spw desc "Has access to all commands"