Nortel Networks 4050 manual Setting the certificate export passphrase using the Srem

Chapter 8 Managing system users and groups 379

2Enter the password information in the applicable fields. Table 71 describes the Change User Password fields.

Table 72 Change User Password fields

Field	Description
Current Administrator	The current password of the admin user performing the
Password	change.
Enter New Password	Sets the new password. The password must be at least
	four characters and can contain spaces. The password is
	case sensitive.
Re-enter New Password	Confirms the new password.

3Click Change Password.

A dialog box appears for confirmation.

4Click Yes.

5Click Apply to send the changes to the device. To make the changes permanent, click Commit.

Setting the certificate export passphrase using the SREM

You can set a certificate administrator’s passphrase for encrypted private keys in a configuration backup, if the certificate administrator role has been separated from the administrator role.

If the admin user is a member of the certadmin group (the default setting), the admin user must provide an export passphrase to protect the private keys in the configuration dump each time the configuration is backed up to an external file server.

Set a certificate administrator export passphrase only if the admin user has removed himself or herself from the certadmin group and added a certificate administrator user with certadmin group rights. When a configuration backup is performed, the certificate export passphrase is automatically used to protect the encrypted private keys. When the configuration is restored from the file exchange server, the user is prompted for the correct certificate export passphrase.

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