Specifications

Using Access Server Commands
1-6
Specifying Passwords
Conventions for Specifying Passwords
Unless Chapter 2 states otherwise, all passwords have 1 to 16 ASCII characters.
When specifying passwords in access server commands, either enclose the
password in quotation marks and include it in the command line, or enter the
command without the password and let the access server prompt you for it.
You can omit the password value and be prompted only if the password
characteristic is the only characteristic in the command line.
The access server does not echo a password that is entered in response to a
password prompt. When you specify a new password, the access server displays
a verification prompt and waits for you to reenter the password (which is again
not echoed). If both entries match, the password is established and the local mode
prompt is displayed. If they do not match, the access server returns to the local
mode prompt. Some examples of password specification follow:
Local> SET SERVER LOGIN PASSWORD "SECRET"
Local> SET SERVER LOGIN PASSWORD
Password> SECRET (not echoed)
Verification> SERCET (not echoed)
Local -742- Password verification failed
Local> SET SERVER LOGIN PASSWORD
Password> SECRET (not echoed)
Verification> SECRET (not echoed)
Press Ctrl/Z at any time to interrupt password processing and return to the local
mode prompt.
You can change the access server characteristics LOGIN PASSWORD, REMOTE
PASSWORD, and PRIVILEGED PASSWORD, but you cannot clear them; you can
change or clear the service characteristic PASSWORD and the access server
characteristic MAINTENANCE PASSWORD.
To clear a service characteristic password, specify quotation marks with nothing
between them ("") in place of the password in the command line.
To clear MAINTENANCE PASSWORD, you can specify “0” in the command line
or enter 0 in response to the password prompt. For details, refer to the command
descriptions in Chapter 2.