User's Manual Part 3
Release8OperationsGuide
Issue2,November2007 Draft5forRegula toryReview 377
22.3 MANAGINGMODULEACCESSBYPASSWORDS
22.3.1 AddingaUserforAccesstoaModule
From the factory, each Cyclone module has a preconfigured administrator-level account
in the name root, which initially requires no associated password. This is the same
root account that you may have used for access to the module by telnet or ftp.
If you upgrade a module to Release 8
◦ an account is created in the name admin.
◦ both admin and root inherit the password that was previously used for access
to the module:
• the Full Access password, if one was set.
• the Display-Only Access password, if one was set and no Full Access
password was set.
IMPORTANT!
If you use Prizm, do not delete the root account from any module. If you use an
NMS that communicates with modules through SNMP,
do not delete the root
account from any module unless you first can confirm that the NMS does not rely
on the
root account for access to the modules.
Each module supports four or fewer user accounts, regardless of account levels. The
available levels are
◦ ADMINISTRATOR, who has full read and write permissions. This is the level of
the root and admin users, as well as any other administrator accounts that one
of them creates.
◦ INSTALLER, who has permissions identical to those of ADMINISTRATOR
except that the installer cannot add or delete users or change the password of
any other user.
◦ GUEST, who has no write permissions and only a limited view of General Status
tab, as shown in Figure 138, and can log in as a user.