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Managing Accounts and Passwords > Managing User Accounts - Pg. 176

176 Chapter5·SecurityandAccessConfiguration To change another user's password, complete the following steps: 1. Log in as a user with read/write permission to the Users feature. n ote Admin users or any user with read/write access to the Users feature can change a user password without providing the existing password. 2. In the system tree, click Configuration | Security And Access | Users. 3. Locate the username you want to change the password for. 4. In the username table, in the New Password and Verify New Password fields, type the new password. 5. Click Apply and then click Save. Managing User Accounts You can use Nokia Network Voyager to add users to your IPSO system and to edit the user ID, group ID, home directory, and default shell for a user. You can also change user passwords and force users to change passwords on next log in. The following users are created by default and cannot be deleted. admin This account has full read/write capabilities to all features accessible through Nokia Network Voyager and the CLI. This user has a User ID of 0, and therefore has all privileges of a root user. monitor This account has read-only capabilities for all features in Nokia Network Voyager and the CLI. You must establish a password for monitor before the account can be used. cadmin This account has full read/write capabilities to all features on every node of the cluster. This user only appears if clustering is configured on your system. When you create a new user, the user is given read-only privileges to the Nokia Network Voyager home page and CLI prompt. The user cannot access other Nokia Network Voyager pages or execute commands from the CLI prompt.