Operation Manual

Password Protection: Using FRITZ!Box Safely
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8 Password Protection: Using FRITZ!Box Safely
This section describes how to set up password protection for the
FRITZ!Box user interface.
In the security overview of the user interface you can check at any
time whether the password protection and the settings of your
FRITZ!Box are secure; see Checking the Security of the FRITZ!Box on
page 142.
8.1 FRITZ!Box Password and FRITZ!Box Users
The FRITZ!Box offers two ways to configure password protec-
tion:
• FRITZ!Box password
• FRITZ!Box user
The two login methods have the following properties:
Property FRITZ!Box Password FRITZ!Box User
FRITZ!WLAN Repeater
Password
You define a password that is
used to open the FRITZ!Box us-
er 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, in the
user account you define which
contents and settings of the
FRITZ!Box the given user is al-
lowed to access.
Kind of access Login to the user interface is
permitted from devices located
in the home network of the
FRITZ!Box.
Access from the Internet is not
possible.
A FRITZ!Box user can log in to
the FRITZ!Box user interface
from the home network and—
with the appropriate user
rights—from the Internet.