Bridge GUI Guide: Administrative Access
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The same message will be returned for an
Administrator
-level
account if the administrator tries to change the password when
the password is locked. Because
Administrator
-level accounts
can change the
Password is Locked
setting for any account, it is
impossible to effectively lock passwords on these accounts
(although the administrator will have to select
No
for
Password
is Locked
and
APPLY
the reconfiguration before changing the
password).
You can lock administrative account passwords only in
Advanced View.
Forcing Password Changes
NOTE:
Preconfig-
ured accounts
force their default pass-
words to be changed
when the accounts are
first accessed.
You can force an administrator to change an account’s
password the next time s/he logs on to the account by selecting
Yes
for
User must change password
.
After the administrator has successfully changed the password
and logged on, the function will reset to
User must change
password:
No
.
You cannot force a password change on an account when the
account’s password is locked. If both
Password is Locked
and
User must change password
are set to
Yes
, the administrator will
be allowed to log on without changing the account password,
and
User must change password
will reset to
No
without effect.
You can force administrative account password changes only
in Advanced View.
2.2.2.8
Adding Administrative Accounts
You can create new administrative accounts from an existing
Administrator
-level account. When the Bridge is configured to
use the local administrator database to authenticate
administrator credentials (
Authentication Method:
Local
, refer to
Section 2.2.1.6), manual creation is the only way to add
administrative accounts. (Accounts added automatically from
external authentication databases are described in the second
part of this section.)
For manually created accounts, you can automatically
generate a random password that exceeds the requirements
currently in effect (Section 2.2.1.8). Generated passwords
conform to all current complexity rules and exceed the
specified minimum length by four characters, unless the
specified minimum is fewer than four characters short of the
32-character maximum (in which cases characters are added
to total 32).
You can add administrative accounts only in Advanced View.
To add a new administrative account:
1
Log on to the Bridge GUI through an
Administrator
-level
account and select
ADVANCED
VIEW
in the upper right corner
