Maintenance Manual

Managing Users
System Defined Users 126
User Privilege Levels 127
Displaying the User List 129
Adding and Updating Users 129
Updating your User Profile 132
Changing your Password 133
System Defined Users
The MCU is pre-configured with two user accounts ("admin" and "guest"), but you can also add other users (see
Adding and updating users). Refer to the table below for descriptions of the pre-configured users.
User
ID
Description Usage Tips
admin The MCU must have at least one configured user
with administrator privileges. By default, the User ID
is "admin" and no password is required.
If you configure the MCU with advanced account
security mode, the admin account requires a
password that adheres to secure password criteria.
For more information about advanced account
security mode, refer to Configuring security
settings.
After logging into the MCU for the first time (see
Logging into the web interface), you can change the
User ID and password for this account. The privilege
level is fixed at administrator for the admin user -
who can see all the pages and change settings.
guest The MCU must have at least one configured user
with access privileges below administrator. The
fixed User ID for this user is "guest" and by default
no password is required.
If you configure the MCU with advanced account
security mode, the guest account requires a
password that adheres to secure password criteria.
For more information about advanced account
security mode, refer to Configuring security
settings.
You cannot change the name of the "guest" User ID.
You can add a password.
You can modify the system defined user accounts if you need to. For example, for security, you should add a
password to the admin account.
Note that you can also create new accounts with administrator or lower access privileges in addition to these pre-
defined users (see Adding and updating users).
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