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Performing Additional Super User Functions 71

3Select [1] Set Super User Password, [2] Set Read-Write Password, or [3] Set Read-Only Password to set the desired password.

The following prompt appears at the bottom of the screen:

Enter New Password:

4Enter the new password. The password appears as asterisks on the screen as you enter it.

CAUTION: Be sure to record your new password and keep the record in a safe place. If you forget your password and have no record of it, you can contact 3Com for assistance, but we may need to delete your database in order to solve the problem.

The following prompt appears:

Re-enter New Password:

5Re-enter the password you entered in step 4.

A message appears, indicating that the password has been saved.

6Select [4] Previous Menu to return to the Super User Privilege menu.

Performing Additional In addition to setting passwords, you can also take over read-write sessions and Super User Functions erase the system database from the Super User Privilege menu, shown earlier in

Figure 43.

Taking over a The PathBuilder S330S310 allows only one read-write session at a time. If you Read-Write Session have super user privileges, however, you can take over a read-write session

without logging off. When you take over a read-write session, the previous read-write session is forced to a read-only session.

To take over a read-write session, follow these steps:

1From the Super User Privilege menu, shown earlier in Figure 43 select [2] Take Over Read-Write Session.

The following prompt appears:

Do you want to take over read-write session (Y/N) [N]?

2Enter y to take over the read-write session.

The following message appears:

The current session has been changed to Read-Write!

Press any key to return.

3Press any key to resume your session in read-write mode.

The interface for the user whose read-write session you took over will switch to read-only mode the next time that user changes screens.

Erasing the System In certain situations—if anomalous behavior on the part of the PathBuilder Database S330/S310 makes you suspect that the database has been corrupted, or if you

have moved a unit from a different location, for example—you may want to consider erasing the system database and starting from scratch. You must have super user privileges in order to erase the system database.