Fortress Technologies ecure Wireless Access Bridge User Manual

Fortress Bridge: Command-Line Interface

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 Passwords

should be a mini-

mum of eight charac-
ters long and contain a
mix of upper and lower-
case letters and numer-
als.

Which GUI password is set depends upon the username 
argument: 

 sets the administrator password, 

, 

the view-only password. Use the 

set

 

passwd

 command, as 

follows:

[GW]> 

Enter Current Password:

Enter     New Password:

Re-enter  New Password:

 Usernames

are predeter-

mined for all Fortress
Bridge interface options;
they cannot be changed.

The default Bridge GUI admin password is 

admin

. The default 

operator password is 

operator

.

GUI passwords must be at least eight characters long.

The 

set

 

passwd

 command is valid only in GW (gateway) mode 

(refer to Section 6.1.1 for more detail).

Use the 

set

 

passwd

 command to change the CLI password, as 

follows:

[GW]> 

Changing password for sysadm
Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
Enter new password:

Re-enter new password:

Password changed.

The default CLI password is 

sysadm

.

The 

set

 

passwd

 command is valid only in GW (gateway) mode 

(refer to Section 6.1.1 for more detail).

Security settings on the Fortress Bridge include encryption 
algorithm, re-keying interval, Access ID, operating mode, 
enabling/disabling SSH and the Bridge GUI, and system 
passwords. 

Except for system passwords, all security settings can be 
viewed through the CLI.

Security settings are configured through the 

set

 command, 

using various options, as described in the following 
subsections.

The encryption algorithm determines how the Bridge encodes 
data. 

All of the Bridge’s Secure Clients must be configured to use the 
same encryption algorithm as the Bridge. For information on 
setting encryption algorithms on Secure Clients, refer to your 
Fortress Secure Client user guide.