72CHAPTER 6: SECURITY

You must enter the following information in both the Getting Started wizard and the Password Configuration screen:

1Choose between the following options by clicking the appropriate radio button:

■Do Not Change Password

■Change Password for the Account

■Set Admin Password to the Factory Default Setting

2Either:

■If you choose Do Not Change Password, the existing password will not be changed.

■If you choose Change Password for the Account, enter a new password in the Password field and enter it again in the Confirm field.

 

Passwords can be up to 10 characters long, are case-sensitive and must

 

only contain alpha-numeric characters.

 

■ If you choose Set Admin Password to the Factory Default Setting, the

 

password is automatically set to the default for the admin user

 

account (no password).

 

 

What is Password

If you forget the password for the admin user account, you will no longer

Recovery?

be able to perform important management operations on the Webcache.

 

Password Recovery allows you to define a new password for the admin

 

account, even though you have forgotten the current one, and regain

 

access to the management interfaces.

 

 

Enabling/Disabling

In order to perform password recovery, Password Recovery must be

Password Recovery

enabled on the Webcache.

 

Password Recovery is enabled by default on the Webcache. You will only

 

need to complete the following steps if you want to check that password

 

recovery is enabled, or if you know that it has previously been disabled.

 

You may want to disable password recovery if you are concerned about

 

the security of the Webcache. When password recovery is enabled,