Lucent Technologies 3100, 3000 manual How to Change the Administrator Password, Works, Guidelines

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How to Change the Administrator Password

How the	The administrator password not only provides access to
administrator	all Switch Cards from the Switch Management Interface,
password	it also provides an Access Code to allow a remote user to
works	connect. This is why it is very important to change the
	administrator password from its default of 000000.
	When you add users to user groups, user ID’s are
	automatically assigned from 01-99. User ID 00 is
	always reserved for the administrator. Therefore, to
	connect to a Switch Card from a remote module, you
	could simply enter 00000000 (user ID plus default
	password) unless the password has been changed.
Administrator	When you change the administrator password, it changes
Password	the password for user ID 00 on ALL cards that are
Guidelines	currently in the rack. In the future if you add additional
	Switch Cards, you should once again change the
	administrator password. This will remove the default
	password from the new Switch Card as it saves the new
	administrator password to all cards.
	Note: When you change the administrator password,
	you should write it down and save it in a safe place. If
	you forget or lose the password, see page 6-33,in
	Chapter 6 for instructions on resetting the password
	back to the default 000000.

! Security Alert:

Passwords should be hard to guess and therefore

should not contain:

all the same numbers (for example, 88888888)

qsequential numbers (for example, 987654321) number strings associated with you or with the remote user or with your business. These include:

Birthdays Telephone numbers

qSocial security numbers

Passwords should be changed regularly, at least on a quarterly basis. Do not recycle old passwords.

Issue 1 October 1998 5-15