[a-nsp] Console only local login user or better way to do this?

[Richard Laager]

Are you willing to share the additional commands?

On 2026-07-10 13:36, Drew Weaver via arista-nsp wrote:
>
> Nevermind I was able to get this it took a few more commands that 
> weren’t really documented in the example.
>
> Thanks everyone, have a nice weekend and sorry for the noise.
>
> *From:*arista-nsp <arista-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net> *On Behalf Of 
> *Drew Weaver via arista-nsp
> *Sent:* Friday, July 10, 2026 2:13 PM
> *To:* 'arista-nsp at puck.nether.net' <arista-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> *Subject:* [a-nsp] Console only local login user or better way to do this?
>
> Hi,
>
> We use tacacs+ and/or SSH keys for regular access to configure 
> infrastructure as is tradition.
>
> We wanted to see if there was a way to configure a local account just 
> for con0 access to the switch.
>
> Not only just in the event that the tacacs+ infrastructure becomes 
> unavailable (I believe our configuration falls back to local anyway)
>
> But sometimes we are making changes to things that it would be really 
> nice to have console access to the switch prior to a potentially 
> breaking change.
>
> I found this article which seems to attempt to describe how to achieve 
> using the local database only for console access which seems like what 
> I want.
>
> https://arista.my.site.com/AristaCommunity/s/article/Configure-Restricted-Local-User-To-Exec-Prompt 
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__arista.my.site.com_AristaCommunity_s_article_Configure-2DRestricted-2DLocal-2DUser-2DTo-2DExec-2DPrompt&d=DwMFAg&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=OPufM5oSy-PFpzfoijO_w76wskMALE1o4LtA3tMGmuw&m=xUqbUO3OdjxxRL71AuRfquYG7O-1oMZu5KxMM5z1GS2BOudwgbZlj3oUa2RoLk_X&s=MFSDC-exA7_kYPpoOFl1tXng7bcOZPi2k9CDzDNprTw&e=>
>
> However I just cannot seem to get it to work following the example.
>
> Does anyone have a working configuration whereby logins on Con0 will 
> be processed locally?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Drew
>
>

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Richard
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