Overcoming lost passwords, Configure ldap – Epiphan Networked VGA Grid User Manual

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Networked VGA Grid User Guide

1-2 User Administration

 3. Select the Access passwords link in the Configuration menu; the password configuration page opens.

 4. Highlight and delete the current password for your selected user (the password is currently masked as

dots).

For security purposes, the current password appears as eight dots regardless of password

length, and even if there is no password set.

 5. Highlight and delete the confirmation password for the selected user.

 6. Click Apply.

 7. If you were logged in as the user whose password you just cleared, you are logged out and must log

back in without a password. If you cleared the viewer’s password, all viewers’ stream will pause until they

log in without a password.

To clear a user’s password on a specific channel:

 1. Connect to the admin interface using your preferred connection mechanism. See

Connect to the Admin

Interface

.

 2. Login as admin.

 3. Click the Streaming link for the channel; the channel's Streaming configuration page opens.

 4. From the Access control section do one of the two following things:

 a. clear the viewer password field; or

 b. select Use global settings from the access control drop down.

 5. Click Apply.

Overcoming Lost Passwords

If you have lost the password for the operator or viewer account, you can log in to the web interface as admin

and reset the password using the procedure described in

Setting and Changing User Passwords

.

If you have lost the admin password and you have remote support enabled on the system, you can contact

Epiphan support to request a remote password change. See

Support

. If remote support is disabled, you will

need to return the system to Epiphan for password recovery. Contact Epiphan support to discuss this option.

If you have lost the admin password for the VGA Grid HD Encoder you will need to reset the system to factory

defaults, which resets to the default blank admin password. See

Perform Factory Reset

.

Configure LDAP

You can use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for authentication into the system. Specify user

roles by using group DNs for users who log in as the administrator, operator, or as a viewer.

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