Use this procedure to change your own network element password.

You may login as a either a Privileged, Administration, General, Maintenance, or Reports Only user to complete this procedure.

Important!

Only users with a privileged or administration access code may change other user's passwords. See Procedure 7-3: Edit, delete, or enter a user's login.

Password guidelines

Passwords must adhere to the following guidelines:

• Passwords must be six to ten characters in length.

• Passwords must contain at least one alphabetic character and at least three non-alphabetic characters (numbers and symbols).

  Of the three non-alphabetic characters, at least one must be a symbol and at least one must be a number. The third non-alphabetic character may be either a symbol or number.

  The remaining characters in the password may be any combination of alphabetic and non-alphabetic characters.

  Symbols may not include space ( ), at (@), comma (,), colon (:), equals sign (=), quotation mark ("), semicolon (;), asterisk (*), exclamation mark (!), question mark (?), or back slash (/).

• Passwords are case-sensitive.

• When passwords are changed, the old and new passwords must be different in at least 3 character positions. The original password, or a significant substring of it, must not be part of the new password.

  If the current and new passwords are the same length, then the characters in at least 3 character positions must be different.

  If the current and new passwords are different lengths, then for each possible contiguous sub-string of the length of the shorter password within the longer password, the characters in at least 3 character positions must be different between the shorter password and the character sub-string within the longer password.

  The network element does not allow reuse of the five most recently used passwords.

Prior to performing this procedure, refer to Before you begin and Required equipment in this chapter.