DGFV338 ProSafe Wireless ADSL Modem VPN Firewall Router Reference Manual
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Router and Network Management
v1.0, May 2008
Changing the Passwords and Login Time-out
The default passwords for the firewall’s Web Configuration Manager is
password
. NETGEAR
recommends that you change this password to a more secure password.
To change the password:
1.
Select
Administration
from the main menu and
Set Password
from the submenu. The
Set
Password
screen will display.
2.
Enter a
New User Name
if desired.
3.
First enter the old password, and then enter the new password twice. Click
Apply
.
4.
Change the login idle time-out by changing the number of minutes. Click
Apply
.
Note:
You can change the Administrator account name; however, you cannot change
it to “root”, as this is a Telnet account that already exists on the system.
Figure 6-1
Note:
If you make the administrator login time-out value too large, you will wait a
long time before you are able to log back into the router if your previous login
was disrupted (for example, if you did not click
Logout
on the Main Menu bar
to log out).
Change guest
Change administrator
Change administrator
login time-out
name and password
read-only password
