Root Account - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

3. Log in from the PC with the username pwrec. No password is required.
4. If the administrator account authentication source is set to Remote, you are given the option to change the
setting to Both; this will allow local administrator accounts to access the system.
5. Select the account (root or admin) whose password you want to change.
6. You will be prompted for a new password.
The pwrec account is only active for one minute following a restart. After that time you will have to restart the
system again to change the password.
Resetting user account passwords
To change a password on behalf of a user without knowing their existing password (for example, when a user
forgets their password):
1. Go to the Edit user account
View/Edit or the username) for the account whose password you want to reset.
2. Enter the new password to be used when logging into this account into the New password and Confirm
password fields and click Save.
This procedure only applies if
enabled, passwords are managed through your remote directory server instead.

Root account

The VCS provides a root account which can be used to log in to the VCS operating system. This account has
a username of root (all lower case) and a default password of TANDBERG (all upper case). For security
reasons you must change the password as soon as possible. An alarm is displayed on the web interface and
the CLI if the root account has the default password set.
Note: the root account should not be used in normal operation, and in particular system configuration should
not be conducted using this account. Use the admin account instead.
Changing the root account password
To change the password for the root account:
1. Log in to the VCS as root. By default you can only do this using a serial connection or SSH.
2. Type passwd.
You will be asked for the new password.
3. Enter the new password and when prompted, retype the password.
4. Type exit to log out of the root account.
Accessing the root account over SSH and Telnet
By default, the root account can be accessed over a serial connection or SSH only - access over Telnet is
disabled by default. You may want to enable access over Telnet, but for security reasons this is not
recommended.
To enable and disable access to the root account using SSH and Telnet:
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X7.2)
page (Maintenance > Login accounts > User
local user account authentication
accounts, then click
is enabled. If remote authentication is
Maintenance
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