Chapter 7 System Screens

7.3 Password Screen

Use this screen to control access to your NWA by assigning a password to it. Click System > Password. The following screen displays.

Figure 71 System > Password.

Note: Even if you uncheck Enable Admin at Local, you still use the password set here to log in via the console port (not available on all models).

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 20 System > Password

LABEL

DESCRIPTIONS

Enable Admin at

Select this check box to have the device authenticate local

Local

management logins to the device.

 

 

Use old setting

Select this to have the NWA use the local management password

 

already configured on the device (“1234” is the default).

 

 

Use new setting

Select this if you want to change the local management password.

 

 

Old Password

Type in your existing system password (“1234” is the default

 

password).

 

 

New Password

Type your new system password (up to 31 characters). Note that as

 

you type a password, the screen displays an asterisk (*) for each

 

character you type.

 

 

Retype to

Retype your new system password for confirmation.

Confirm

 

 

 

Enable Admin on

Select this (and configure the other fields in this section) to have a

RADIUS

RADIUS server authenticate management logins to the NWA.

 

 

Use old setting

Select this to have a RADIUS server authenticate management

 

logins to the NWA using the RADIUS username and password

 

already configured on the device.

 

 

 

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