A co-op assigns a technician to a custom login class that includes view and network permissions but not configure. What happens when that technician attempts to enter configuration mode on a POP router?
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Short Explanation
Being able to look at things and being able to change them are two different permissions in Junos, and the class the technician got only covers looking. Without the configure permission bundled in, the door to configuration mode just doesn't open for that account.
Full Explanation
Junos login classes are built from discrete permission bits, and entering configuration mode specifically requires a permission tied to configuration access — a class that grants view (seeing operational and configuration state) and network (running network diagnostic tools) but omits configuration-related permission does not, by that combination alone, unlock configuration mode. Attempting to enter configuration mode with such a class results in the CLI denying the request outright, rather than allowing entry with some hidden restriction applied afterward. View permission is deliberately scoped to visibility, not modification — being able to see the current configuration is a different capability from being able to change it, and Junos keeps those separated so a monitoring-focused role can't accidentally, or intentionally, drift into making changes. There's no secondary RADIUS challenge gating entry to configuration mode specifically; authentication happens once at login, and configuration-mode access afterward is governed purely by the account's login-class permissions, not a re-authentication step. Nor does Junos allow entry into configuration mode and then silently discard commits — if the class lacks configuration access, the attempt to even open configuration mode fails immediately with a permission-denied response, which is the clearer and more predictable behavior for troubleshooting a misconfigured class.