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Version 1.73 Copyright © 1997 Link Communications Inc. 1/18/97
Note that there is no reason to program a password for user 000, since everyone is user 000
until they log in. Now enter Command 009 to try and recall the crosspoint settings. If you are
not logged in, the controller won't let you (that is a level 4 command). Log in as user 001 or
002 as described above and try Command 009 again. You can check to see if you are logged in
by entering Command 188.
If you want your Club members to be able to use the autopatch and remote base and do other
common things without logging on, but you still want your control operators to have to log on
to change how the controller is programmed, log on, enter the command sequence for
Command 186 000 1 2. This sets user 000 to level 2. If you do this, everyone will be able to
execute level 0, 1 and 2 commands without logging in.
If you want to turn the password system off, log on and enter the command sequence for
Command 186 000 1 7. This sets user 000 to level 7. If you do this, the controller will allow
all commands to be executed without logging on.
Before setting up the rest of the users, you should consider how secure you want your system to
be and choose from the following methods of logging into the controller. Before experimenting
with these methods, make sure that you are able to log on as at least TWO different users, both
level 7. Otherwise if you mess up, you might not be able to log in. A secure system can lock
you out too!
Method #1 - No Passwords:
To log on with this method, you have to tell the controller your user number, but you don't have
to enter a password. This is useful when you want to require people to log on to execute
commands so you know who they are, but it doesn't provide much security. It is easy to log on
as someone else, because you don't have to know their password. To set up user 001 with no
password, enter Command 186 001 0. Use 001 can log on with Command 187 001.
Method #2 - Fixed Passwords:
We have already used this method in the examples above. With fixed passwords, you log onto
the controller by entering Command 187 followed by your user number and your password, for
example "187 001 1234". You can make your password up to eight digits long. For example,
using Command 186 001 1 7 0 12345678, user 001 is assigned a fixed password of 12345678.
Longer passwords are obviously harder to guess, but if someone is decoding your DTMF tones,
they will probably be able to figure out your password no matter how long it is. Even so, fixed
passwords are probably secure enough for most Club members, and possibly secure enough for
even the owner and control operators.
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