A local host account is an administrative account in which all information is maintained on the same server where the login occurs.

These accounts are authenticated by PAM authentication software that resides on Communication Manager, without interacting with other AAA Services.

Fixed profiles exist for the following logins: init, inads, craft, dadmin customer superuser and non-superuser, and profiles for SNMP and CMS access.

Additional local user accounts can be created. A web interface and CLI commands (CMuser commands) exist for adding or removing additional local user accounts.

Local host accounts can be used at the same time as any of the external AAA Services.