Changing The System Password - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Cisco TelePresence ISDN Link
Contents Introduction
Password protection
The system is password protected in the following ways:
• The ISDN Link is password protected. You always need to
enter a username to sign in to the command line interfaces.
• You can protect the file system of the ISDN Link by setting
a password for the root user. The root user is disabled by
default.
NOTE: Make sure to keep a copy of the password in a safe
place. If you have forgotten the password and cannot access
the system, you need to do a factory reset via the boot monitor.
If you do not know how to do this contact Cisco support.
D14954.01 ISDN Link Administrator Guide IL1.0, June 2012.
Copyright © 2012 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Changing the system password

The system is delivered with a default user account with
username admin and no password set. This user has full access
rights to configuration of the system.
NOTE: We strongly recommend that you set a password for the
admin user to restrict access to system configuration.
Changing the password using the command line interface
If a password is currently not set, use a blank current password;
to remove a password, leave the new password entries blank.
1. Connect to the ISDN Link through the network or serial port.
2. Sign in to the unit with your current password.
3. Run the following API command and when prompted enter the
current password and the new password, and confirm the new
password:
systemtools passwd
The password format is a string with 0–64
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Setting a root password
If you sign in to the command line interface as root, you can
access the file system on the unit.
The root user is disabled by default. You can check if root is
enabled or disabled by entering the following API command:
systemtools rootsettings get
The command will respond with On if already enabled.
Perform the following steps to activate the root user and set a
password:
1. Connect to the ISDN Link through the network or serial port.
2. Sign in to the system with the username (admin) and
password.
3. Run the following API command:
systemtools rootsettings on [password]
characters.
Where [password] is the password (optional) you want to
set.
NOTE: Although password is optional we strongly
recommended that a password is set and some record made
of this password. Having no root password, if root user is
enabled, poses a serious security risk.
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