Alcatel Omni Switch/Router, User Manual

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Changing Passwords
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Changing Passwords
The
switch
provides three types of login accounts by default—Administrator, User and Diag-
nostics. The Administrator login provides full
READ/WRITE
access to all command families.
The login name for the Administrator account is
admin
. The login name for the default User
account is
user
and provides
READ ONLY
access to the switch’s command families except for
the global family, and
NO WRITE
privileges. The Diagnostics login has full
READ/WRITE
access
to all command families plus a command for running switching module tests. The login name
for Diagnostics is
diag
.
The initial password for all three accounts is
switch
. If you log in as
diag
you can change the
passwords for the
diag
and
admin
login accounts. If you log in as
admin
, however, you can
only change the password for the
admin
login account. To change the password, complete the
following steps. Remember that the User Interface does not echo (display) the password char-
acters.
1. From the prompt, type
pw <account-name>
The
<account-name>
is the user login name (
diag
,
admin
) for which you want to change
the password. The following prompt displays:
Changing password for account:<account-name>
Old password:
2. Enter the old password and press
<Enter>
. If you enter the old password incorrectly, the
following message displays:
Authentication failure
and the command will terminate. You will then need to start over from
Step 1
above.
If you answered the old password correctly, the following prompt displays:
New password:
3. Enter the new password (you are allowed up to 18 characters) and press
<Enter>
. The
following prompt displays:
Retype new:
4. Re-enter the new password to confirm it and press
<Enter>
.
♦
Note
♦
It is recommended that you change the password from
the default for all login accounts.
The passwords are stored encrypted in the
mpm.cnf
file. If you forget your password, you will
have to delete the
mpm.cnf
file which will cause the passwords to revert to the default.
♦
Caution
♦
Deleting the
mpm.cnf
file will also remove all of your
configuration data and restore everything back to
factory settings.