Password Protection: Using FRITZ!Box Safely
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Password Protection: Using FRITZ!Box
Safely
Your FRITZ!Box contains many personalized settings for your
home network, your telephone system and your Internet con-
nection. For this reason we recommend protecting access to
the user interface of your FRITZ!Box with a password.
8.1
Overview
The FRITZ!Box offers two ways to configure password protec-
tion:
8.2
Setting a FRITZ!Box Password
Overview
The basic method of logging in to the FRITZ!Box user interface
is to enter the FRITZ!Box password. With this password all us-
ers can open the user interface and access all of the
FRITZ!Box’s contents and settings.
With the FRITZ!Box password it is not possible to access the
FRITZ!Box from the Internet, however. In such a case you also
require an account as a FRITZ!Box user; see
Property
FRITZ!Box password
FRITZ!Box user
Password
You specify a password.
Everyone who knows the pass-
word can access the FRITZ!Box
user interface.
There are user accounts.
Every FRITZ!Box user receives
her or his own password for
opening the user interface.
Scope of access
With the FRITZ!Box password,
access to all contents and set-
tings in the FRITZ!Box is per-
mitted.
For each FRITZ!Box user, you
define which contents and set-
tings of the FRITZ!Box the given
user is allowed to access.
Kind of access
Login to the user interface is
permitted from devices located
in the home network of the
FRITZ!Box.
A FRITZ!Box user can also log
in to the FRITZ!Box user inter-
face—with the appropriate us-
er rights—from the Internet.
