Configuring Passwords in Cipher Text for MAC Address Authentication

This section provides a sample of configuring passwords in cipher text for MAC address authentication using the merge method. You can also use the create method to configure passwords in cipher text for MAC address authentication.

**Table 1** Configuring passwords in cipher text for MAC address authentication
Operation	XPATH
edit-config:merge	/huawei-nac-mac:mac-access/configure-mode/unified-mode/mac-access-profile/password

Data Requirement

**Table 2** Configuring passwords in cipher text for MAC address authentication
Item	Data	Description
name	test	Configure passwords in cipher text for MAC address authentication. The MAC access profile must exist on the switch.
mac-address-format	with-hyphen-normal
letter	uppercase
password	huawei@123

Request Example

<rpc xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="43a8e485-35d2-499e-895c-e2d2d5f555a8">
 <edit-config>
  <target>
   <running/>
  </target>
  <error-option>rollback-on-error</error-option>
  <config>
   <mac-access xmlns="urn:huawei:params:xml:ns:yang:huawei-nac-mac">
    <mac-access-profile>
     <name>test</name>
     <mac-address-format>with-hyphen-normal</mac-address-format>
     <letter>uppercase</letter>
     <password>huawei@123</password>
    </mac-access-profile>
   </mac-access>
  </config>
 </edit-config>
</rpc>

Response Example

Sample of successful response

<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="43a8e485-35d2-499e-895c-e2d2d5f555a8">
 <ok/>
</rpc-reply>

Sample of failed response

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0" message-id="11">
  <rpc-error>
    <error-app-tag>-1</error-app-tag>
    <error-message>CMD is incomplete, para fixed or macaddress must have one.</error-message>
    <error-info>Error on node /huawei-nac-mac:mac-access/mac-access-profile[name="mactest"]/letter</error-info>
  </rpc-error>
</rpc-reply>