NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
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.
A NAS is a multi user device, and so it’s appropriate to have multiple user IDs. These routers are single user admin, there is no need for multiple admin accounts even if you could have more than one person performing that role. So in effect the User ID is pretty much redundant, and in fact my SOHO router has no Admin ID, that field is simply blank.
What stops people gaining unauthorised access to the router is the password, not the User ID, and if you a want to use the User ID as an authentication field then I have to ask if you are using all the possible characters of the current Authentication field?
What is the difference in difficulty in determining these User ID / Password combinations where both are required to access the account?
1. User ID – FredBloggs, Password 123456
2. User ID – Blank, Password FredBloggs123456
3. User ID – Admin, Password 123456
4. User ID – Admin, Password FredBloggs123456
Anyone who is aware of my router model, a Draytek Vigor 2950, will know that there is no User ID, does that make the router less secure?
At work I use Cisco routers costing thousands of pounds, they have no admin ID either, they only prompt for a password, no mention of a User ID.
What if we had one User ID which is fixed and added a second password i.e. User ID, Password1, Password2, is that so different to what is being asked for here? What about these examples;
1. User ID Admin (openly known), Password1 – FredBloggs, Password2 123456
2. User ID none – not used, Password1 – FredBloggs, Password2 123456
Neither of those two examples are any easier to guess than example 4 above, if you think otherwise please explain.
What is being effectively asked for here is to change the User ID into a kind of password, i.e. a router with two passwords, and I would say that's really only of any security value if the all characters of the existing password are used (which on its own would be monstrously difficult to determine if good password selection is used)
What stops people gaining unauthorised access to the router is the password, not the User ID, and if you a want to use the User ID as an authentication field then I have to ask if you are using all the possible characters of the current Authentication field?
What is the difference in difficulty in determining these User ID / Password combinations where both are required to access the account?
1. User ID – FredBloggs, Password 123456
2. User ID – Blank, Password FredBloggs123456
3. User ID – Admin, Password 123456
4. User ID – Admin, Password FredBloggs123456
Anyone who is aware of my router model, a Draytek Vigor 2950, will know that there is no User ID, does that make the router less secure?
At work I use Cisco routers costing thousands of pounds, they have no admin ID either, they only prompt for a password, no mention of a User ID.
What if we had one User ID which is fixed and added a second password i.e. User ID, Password1, Password2, is that so different to what is being asked for here? What about these examples;
1. User ID Admin (openly known), Password1 – FredBloggs, Password2 123456
2. User ID none – not used, Password1 – FredBloggs, Password2 123456
Neither of those two examples are any easier to guess than example 4 above, if you think otherwise please explain.
What is being effectively asked for here is to change the User ID into a kind of password, i.e. a router with two passwords, and I would say that's really only of any security value if the all characters of the existing password are used (which on its own would be monstrously difficult to determine if good password selection is used)