Nortel Networks 4050 User Manual

Chapter 8 Managing system users and groups 379

Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Guide

Enter the password information in the applicable fields. 

 describes the 

Change User Password fields.

Click Change Password.

A dialog box appears for confirmation.

Click Yes.

Click Apply to send the changes to the device. To make the changes 
permanent, click Commit.

You can set a certificate administrator’s passphrase for encrypted private keys in a 
configuration backup, if the certificate administrator role has been separated from 
the administrator role.

If the admin user is a member of the certadmin group (the default setting), the 
admin user must provide an export passphrase to protect the private keys in the 
configuration dump each time the configuration is backed up to an external file 
server.

Set a certificate administrator export passphrase only if the admin user has 
removed himself or herself from the certadmin group and added a certificate 
administrator user with certadmin group rights. When a configuration backup is 
performed, the certificate export passphrase is automatically used to protect the 
encrypted private keys. When the configuration is restored from the file exchange 
server, the user is prompted for the correct certificate export passphrase.

 Change User Password fields

Current Administrator 
Password

The current password of the admin user performing the 
change.

Enter New Password

Sets the new password. The password must be at least 
four characters and can contain spaces. The password is 
case sensitive.

Re-enter New Password

Confirms the new password.