Lucent Technologies 1100 manual Security Alert

Configuration

NOTE:

If more than one Switch Module is connected to the DEFINITY ECS in a hunt group configuration, you should disable the remote users’ capability of changing passwords by setting the third digit at “9”. The reason for this action is that if the user changes a password, the change is stored only in the Switch Module to which the user is connected and not in all the Switch Modules in the hunt group.

! Security Alert:

All information about passwords should be considered proprietary and should not be given to Remote Module users.

Users can change passwords by entering the old password and then the new password. As the system administrator, you can disable any password, except password “00,” by changing the password to the two-digit code which represents the user whose password is to be disabled.

! Security Alert:

A correct password permits the remote user access to the full DEFINITY ECS, including those areas, such as WATS lines, most liable to toll fraud. Passwords should be as long as allowed. Passwords should be hard to guess and therefore should not contain:

■all the same numbers (for example, 88888888)

■sequential characters (for example, 987654321)

Issue 1 June 1998 2-11