Chapter 4 BCM50 Security Policies and Accounts and Privileges 97
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Enabling and disabling exclusive access
As the administrator, you can enable or disable exclusive access for special activities or
maintenance. The administrator performing maintenance tasks can lock the system during the
maintenance period. When you enable exclusive access, this capability prevents new logins but
does not affect existing logins. This functionality is available to administrators only.
To enable/disable exclusive access
1Select Configuration, Administrator Access, Accounts and Privileges, Current Account
tab.
2Click Enable Exclusive Access.
3In the Enable Exclusive Access dialog box, select a duration in minutes from the drop-down
box that represents the amount of time you want to have exclusive access to the system.
The timer begins to count down. When it reaches zero, exclusive access ends.
4If you no longer need exclusive access, click Disable Exclusive Access to stop the timer and
end exclusive access.
User account and user group management fundamentals
This section contains information on the following topics:
•User accounts on page 97
•Default passwords on page 99
•Default groups on page 99
•Default access privileges excluding set-based privileges on page 101
•Telset access security on page 109
•Blocking user accounts on page 11 0
User accounts
User accounts are defined by:
• a unique user ID that is visible only to authenticating services; Element Manager IDs are
alphanumeric, and Telset IDs are numeric
• a unique user name assigned for either or both the Element Manager and telset configuration
that has a minimum length that you define when you set up the security policies
• a unique password assigned for any user ID that is defined. Either password must satisfy the
Password Policy settings for the system that you define when you set up the security policies.
• a list of group attributes which allow the user specific access privileges in the system