Symantec Security 5600 Series, Security 5400 Series,Clientless VPN 4400 Series, Administration Manual

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758 Field descriptions
System field descriptions
Administration
When you expand the Administration folder, you have access to tabs from which you can do the
following:
Admin Account Properties—General tab
Use the Admin Account Properties dialog box to create new administrators for the security gateway or
to change administrator privileges.
Associated tasks
The task that you can perform with this tab is:
■
“Creating administrator accounts” on page 67
■
“Changing administrator passwords” on page 71
Create and modify local
administrator accounts “Admin Account Properties—General tab” on page 758
Create and modify machine
accounts “Machine Account Properties—General tab” on page 764
Configure advanced options “Advanced Options Properties—General tab” on page 765
Configure SYN flood allowed
hosts “SYN Flood Allowed Hosts” on page 766
Table D-242
Admin Account Properties—General tab
Fields Description
Enable Indicates whether this option is enabled.
This option is checked by default.
User Name Name of the administrator.
The maximum length is 32 characters.
Allowed characters are a-z, A-Z, numerals, periods (.), dashes (-), and underscores (_).
Do not include spaces in the name. The characters @,!,#,$,%,^,&,*,<,> and other reserved
characters are also invalid.
Given Name Given name of the administrator.
The maximum length is 32 characters.
Spaces are allowed and no characters are restricted.
Surname Surname of the administrator.
This can be used to distinguish between similar user names.
The maximum length is 32 characters.
Spaces are allowed and no characters are restricted.
Password Administrator’s password.
The password is encrypted and appears as a string of asterisk (*) characters.
The password should be at least 10 characters long, with both upper and lowercase letters, a
punctuation mark, and at least one numeric digit.
Confirm Password Confirms the administrator’s password.
Last password
change Indicates the last time the password was changed.
This field is read-only.