3Com 56K manual Enable Local Security, Enabled

10-4CHAPTER 10: DIAL SECURITY

will be locked out of the Business Modem’s dial security features. You will need to restore the factory defaults. This will erase ALL passwords and you will have to reconfigure all your accounts.

3Set up guest-user accounts.

Use the AT%An command to set up guest-user accounts in the same way you set up your administrative account. You can set up nine guest accounts. Refer to the figure in step 1 regarding information about formatting the AT%An command.

After you have enabled the guest accounts, make sure the guest users know their passwords and the log-in procedure.

Modifying Accounts After you have set up an account, you can modify each field independently. If a field is to remain unchanged from its original setting, just insert a comma, as shown: AT%A1=,,,Y,

The command above allows the guest user to supply a dialback number that is different from the one stored in the original account record.

4Enable Local Security.

WARNING: If you do not enable Local Security, the Dial Security settings will not be protected and other users will be able to change or erase them.

For your modem to	Command
Protect the administrative password (local security	ATS53.2=1
enabled)

You must use the &W command to save the settings in NVRAM. If you don’t, the next time you reset or power off the Business Modem, Dial Security will be disabled.

5Decide which Dial Security option to use.

You can choose from the two types of Dial Security: Autopass and Password Prompting.