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Changing the Admin Password

CoffeeLink News Server is shipped with the all powerful admin user's password set to admin and the default user's password blank. Because the admin user is so powerful, the first thing an administrator must do is change the admin user's password to something that is hard to guess. Failure to do so will almost certainly result in a break-in by unauthorized individuals. To change the admin user's password, follow these steps:

  1. run the Configure program and login to the CLNews server

  2. expand the Users branch in the tree pane and click on the admin account

  3. click on the password, admin, in the properties pane and type in a new password

  4. click the Apply button to save the new password.



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