Gilderfluke&Co 'Smart' Brick Animation Control System User Manual

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ple aren’t scrambling to find different passwords.

Keys to clear individual Lock Counter/Timer can be any com-

bination of from one up to ten alphanumeric characters. If you
don’t enter a password for an individual Lock Counter/Timer, you
will not be able to clear it except from this screen. This means that
your end users, who presumably won’t have access to this
screen, will not be able to clear it themselves.

All of the password entries are case sensitive, and can in-

clude spaces, numbers, punctuation marks, and most non-
printing characters (tabs, bells, etc.). The Smart Brick Brain will ac-
cept any characters you can type, with the exceptions of the
, and keys, which it needs to use
as you are entering stuff. Non-printing characters will be dis-
played as ‘?’s on the screen.

You can use the same tricks you use on the Internet to make

your passwords harder to guess. Examples of these are replac-
ing letters with similar numbers (i.e.: the letter ‘o’ is replaced by the
number ‘0’) or using reversing the normal capitalization of
wORDS. Don’t use the word ‘password’ as this is most hackers first
guess. The second guess will probably be your company’s
name.

The strings you enter for each password are displayed on the

LCD screen on the front of the Smart Brick Brain once a password
has expired. You can use the strings to remind you what lock is
that has expired. Although you can enter non-printing charac-
ters, the LCD will simply ignore most of them. If you don’t like the
way the Smart Brick Brain ‘centers’ the text you have entered, then
you can use ‘spaces’ to center how ever you would prefer.

Once expired, passwords must be entered to unlock the

Smart Brick Brain. Passwords can be cleared before they expire,
and will then never expire. Clearing passwords requires that the
end user be able to plug in a computer to the Smart Brick Brain
and has an appropriate modem program and cable to do so.

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