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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.
Babylon5 wrote:
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.
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)
I would only say a router is a single legitimate user device. There surely more than one person, the administrator, who wants to log in. Otherwise, no password is needed at all.
It is a simple math, man. Guessing one password is easier than guessing two. If you think otherwise please explain.:p
And yes, asking to change the username actually is asking to set up a two passwords authentication system.:eek: It is enlightening to me. Be frank, I am not an IT professional. I have never ever thought in this way as an end user.:o As a low technique paranoid end user, two "passwords" is more safe than one.
I don't disagree one password can be very secure, even secure enough. My password is monstrous. It consists of over 20 digits (something like repeating Bblon5329067 three to four times). I still think that it may be good enough, but it is not difficult to make it better.
By the way, sometimes we may need to think of some careless users who keep using easy passwords (like my colleague who got his NAS cracked:D). For example, which one is easier to crack if you were a hacker?
user: admin (fixed)
password: 12345
user: root (set by the silly user and unknown to others)
password: 12345
well, I admit, both are easy enough, but still, the first one is few seconds easier. If lucky enough, the second one can be protected once or twice by the blocking wrong password mechanism, if there is any.