User`s guide

Setting up Meridian Mail security 6-135
Password display suppression
Standard 1.0 System Administration Guide January 1998
Password display suppression
Introduction
The password display suppression feature prevents display of
entered password digits on telephone sets that have display
screens. This prevents “shoulder surfers” from seeing your
password.
How password display
suppression works
When users enter their passwords, each digit in the password is
replaced by a dash (-). The pound (#) key continues to be
displayed as #, but the star (*) key is displayed as a dash if the
feature is enabled.
This feature is not supported for external calls because the local
switch has no control on the suppression capability.
Suppressing the
display
To suppress the display of password each time a user logs in to
Meridian Mail, follow these steps.
Starting Point:
The Meridian Mail Main Menu
Step Action
1 Select Voice Administration.
Result:
The Voice Administration menu appears.
2 Select Voice Security Options.
Result:
The Voice Security Options screen appears.
3 Select Yes in the Suppress Display of Telset Password field.
4 Do you want to save the configuration?
IF THEN press
yes [Save].
no [Cancel].