default user on ASA has privilege 2 min privilege to have access to ASDM is 2 read-only access to ASDM requires an user with priv 2, service-type ‘nas-prompt’ and ‘aaa authorization command LOCAL’ + access to 'show' commands (Configuration>Device Management>Users/AAA>AAA Access>Authorization and 'Set ASDM Definied User Roles') telnet on ASA is not allowed on interface with security level = 0 to control which commands are allowed you have to configure: aaa authentication telnet console LOCAL aaa authorization command LOCAL privilege show level 7 command crypto enable password test7 level 7 btw the command “privilege show level 7 command crypto ” is converted to: privilege show level 7 mode exec command crypto privilege show level 7 mode configure command crypto you can exclude host from aaa: aaa mac-exempt match MAC-ACL using local aaa you can limit the number of failed authentications: aaa local authenticati...