Motorola Netopia 3342N - Manual (Page 140)

Administrator’s Handbook
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Link: Passwords
Access to your Gateway may be controlled through two optional user accounts, Admin and User. When you
first power up your Gateway, you create a password for the Admin account. The User account does not
exist by default. As the Admin, a password for the User account can be entered or existing passwords
changed.
Create and Change Passwords. You can establish different levels of access security to protect
your Motorola Netopia® Gateway settings from unauthorized display or modification.
• Admin level privileges let you display and modify all settings in the Motorola Netopia® Gateway (Read/
Write mode). The Admin level password is created when you first access your Gateway.
• User level privileges let you display (but not change) settings of the Motorola Netopia® Gateway. (Read
Only mode)
To prevent anyone from obser ving the password you enter, characters in the old and new password fields
are not displayed as you type them.
To display the Passwords window, click the Security toolbar button on the Home page.
Use the following procedure to change existing passwords or add the User password for your Motorola
Netopia® Gateway:
1. Select the account type from the Username pull-down list.
Choose from Admin or User.
2. If you assigned a password to the Motorola Netopia® Gateway previously, enter your
current password in the
Old Password field.
3. Enter your new password in the New Password field.
Motorola Netopia®’s rules for a Password are: