Enabling And Disabling Recovery Password; Summary Of Recovery Password Commands; Enabling And Disabling Telnet Access - Avaya G450 Manual

Enabling and disabling recovery password

The G450 includes a special recovery password. The purpose of the recovery password is to
enable the system administrator to access the G450 in the event that the regular password is
forgotten. You can only use the recovery password when accessing the G450 via a direct
connection to the Console port or Services port.
Use the set terminal recovery password command to enable or disable the recovery
password. Use this command only when accessing the G450 via a direct connection to the
Console port or Services port.

Summary of recovery password commands

For more information about these commands, see Avaya G450 CLI Reference, 03-300437.
Table 7: Master Configuration Key configuration commands
Command
set terminal recovery
password

Enabling and disabling telnet access

You can enable and disable the G450's ability to establish incoming and outgoing telnet
connections, using the following commands. You can only use these commands when
accessing the G450 via a direct connection to the Console port.
Use the ip telnet command to enable the G450 to establish an incoming telnet
●
connection. Use the no form of this command to disable the G450's ability to establish an
incoming telnet connection.
Enter ip telnet-client to enable the G450 to establish an outgoing telnet connection.
●
Use the no form of this command to disable the G450's ability to establish an outgoing
telnet connection.
Use the ip telnet-services command to enable the telnet server on the Services
●
interface.
Note:
These commands are secured commands and are not displayed together with
Note:
the running configuration (using the show running-config command). To see
the status of these commands, use the show protocol command.
Description
Enable or disable the recovery password
Special security features
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