Setting The Security; Setting The Modem Date And Time; Figure 23: Changing The Security - Advantech AMT-73 Installation And Operation Manual

5.6 Setting the Security

We strongly recommend that the manufacturing installation password is changed during the first setup.
The command "passwd" is used for this function as shown below;
# passwd
Changing password for root
Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 characters) (yourpassword)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
Enter new password: (yourpassword)
Warning: weak password (continuing).
Re-enter new password:
Password changed.
We strongly recommend keeping your equipment password in a safe place.
The system implements a strong password scheme to protect the modem from
network intrusion.

5.7 Setting the modem date and time

The ATM70 modem series have a standard real time clock fitted. This clock is battery back up and kept
the critical system parameters. The clock is also used by the modem software for the timestamp of the
log messages and SNMP trap alerts.
The command used to set the modem date and time is as follows:
# date yyyy.mm.dd-hh:mm:ss
yyyy
mm
dd
hh
mm
ss
AMT-70/AMT-73/AMT-75 Installation and Operation
Figure 23: Changing the Security Code (Password)
is the year number
is the month number
is the day number
is the hour (24 hour system)
is the minute number
is the seconds number
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