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Technician’s Handbook
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Making Your System Secure
1. Log on to the maintenance terminal and select
maintenance mode.
2. Change your username and password if either of these
warnings appears:
“Expired password in use!”
“Default username and password in use!”
3. If someone with login privileges has left the company,
change the usernames and passwords at ALL levels.
Change the SYSTEM, INSTALLER, MAINT1, and
MAINT2 usernames and passwords by using the
DISPLAY USERNAMES, RESET USERNAMES,
RESET PASSWORD, and CHANGE PASSWORD
commands.
Change the SUPERVISOR and ATTENDANT
passwords by using the RESET PASSWORD
command.
4. In the System Options Assignment form, set the
password expiry time (number of days before password
expires). The default is 60 days.
5. Change all account codes that are known by any user
who has left the company. Use the Independent Account
Code Definition form.
6. Record usernames, passwords, and account codes.
Store them in a secure place.
7. In the Form Access Authorization form, provide access
to only the required forms for each authorization level.
8. In the System Options Assignment form, set the
Maintenance Terminal Lock-out Timer.
9. In the Trunk Service Assignment form, assign all trunks
that require a Class of Restriction (COR) to prohibit
external calls.