NETGEAR FVS124G manual Administrator and Guest Access Authorization

Reference Manual for the ProSafe VPN Firewall 25 with 4 Gigabit LAN and Dual WAN Ports

Administrator and Guest Access Authorization

You can change the administrator and guest passwords, administrator login timeout, and enable remote management. Administrator access is read/write and guest access is read-only.

Changing the Passwords and Login Timeout

The default passwords for the firewall’s Web Configuration Manager is password. Netgear recommends that you change this password to a more secure password.

From the main menu of the browser interface, under the Management heading, select Set Password to bring up this menu.

Change administrator password

Change guest read-only password

Change administrator login timeout

Figure 8-1: Set Password menu

To change the password, first enter the old password, and then enter the new password twice. Click Apply. To change the login idle timeout, change the number of minutes and click Apply.

Note: If you make the administrator login timeout value too large, you will have to wait a long time before you are able to log back into the router if your previous login was disrupted (i.e., you did not click Logout on the Main Menu bar to log out).

The password and timeout value you enter will be changed back to password and 5 minutes, respectively, after a factory defaults reset.

8-8 Router and Network Management

202-10085-01, March 2005