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How I can change the Username itself, not just the password.
Hello, How I can change the Username itself, not just the password please? Cheers, Guy.
- Are you referring to the username and password of the UI? If that's the case, you cannot change the username as there is no option for you to change it.
I understand it might be a common practice in many system. Maybe, it is even good enough. But it doesn't necessarily mean it is better.
The example you mentioned are mostly internal, or inside a trust system. What I am concerned is the outsiders, UNtrusted ones. I think you cannot deny that two unknowns is much harder to guess than one unknown. Yes, with other settings such as block the intruder out for a period of time after a number of trials, it might be safe enough. But surely it is billion times more safe if there are two strain to guess.
In my NAS, I stopped the admin account and create another super user with a nonsense name to be the administrator. My colleague who is using the same model of NAS with me, has his NAS been cracked once through the admin login. Perhaps he is more unlucky than me, perhaps he is more silly in setting password. But no one can deny if we look at the very lengthy log of our NAS, there is a load of "admin" trying to login. Anyone who want to crack the NAS from the company will start with "admin" with different password. It is the same case here, anyone who want to crack into the network with the router of this brand, they know where to start with. Of course, how to hide the brand of my router is another issue. In a sense it might be a factor of authentication.
It might be common, it might be "good enough". But it is not difficult to make it better, is it?
The example you mentioned are mostly internal, or inside a trust system. What I am concerned is the outsiders, UNtrusted ones. I think you cannot deny that two unknowns is much harder to guess than one unknown. Yes, with other settings such as block the intruder out for a period of time after a number of trials, it might be safe enough. But surely it is billion times more safe if there are two strain to guess.
In my NAS, I stopped the admin account and create another super user with a nonsense name to be the administrator. My colleague who is using the same model of NAS with me, has his NAS been cracked once through the admin login. Perhaps he is more unlucky than me, perhaps he is more silly in setting password. But no one can deny if we look at the very lengthy log of our NAS, there is a load of "admin" trying to login. Anyone who want to crack the NAS from the company will start with "admin" with different password. It is the same case here, anyone who want to crack into the network with the router of this brand, they know where to start with. Of course, how to hide the brand of my router is another issue. In a sense it might be a factor of authentication.
It might be common, it might be "good enough". But it is not difficult to make it better, is it?