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Administrator’s Handbook
Link: Passwords
Access to your Gateway may be controlled through two optional user accounts, Admin and User. When you first power up your Gateway, you create a password for the Admin account. The User account does not exist by default. As the Admin, a password for the User account can be entered or existing passwords changed.
Create and Change Passwords. You can establish different levels of access security to protect your Motorola Netopia® Gateway settings from unauthorized display or modification.
•Admin level privileges let you display and modify all settings in the Motorola Netopia® Gateway (Read/ Write mode). The Admin level password is created when you first access your Gateway.
•User level privileges let you display (but not change) settings of the Motorola Netopia® Gateway. (Read Only mode)
To prevent anyone from observing the password you enter, characters in the old and new password fields are not displayed as you type them.
To display the Passwords window, click the Security toolbar button on the Home page.
Use the following procedure to change existing passwords or add the User password for your Motorola Netopia® Gateway:
1.Select the account type from the Username
Choose from Admin or User.
2.If you assigned a password to the Motorola Netopia® Gateway previously, enter your current password in the Old Password field.
3.Enter your new password in the New Password field.
Motorola Netopia®’s rules for a Password are: