Change Default Username and Password

G-Core uses a default username and password.

IMPORTANT: We strongly recommend changing your username and password during the setup. In addition, we recommend storing your login data in a suitable system (e.g. a password manager) instead of writing it down in a notebook or forwarding it via email.

What Does a Secure Password Look Like?

There are no limits to your creativity when choosing a password. It is important that you remember the password well. For that, there are a few different strategies:

• Remember a sentence and only use the first letter (or only the second or last letter) of each word. Subsequently, you can convert certain letters into numbers or special characters.
• Use a whole sentence as a password or string different words together using special characters.
• Randomly select five to six words from the dictionary and separate them with spaces.

These techniques result in a password that is easy to remember, to type and difficult to decrypt.

Basically, the longer the password, the better. A good password should be at least twelve characters long.

Inadequate Passwords

Inadequate passwords are any dates of birth or names of family members, pets, best friends, favorite stars and so on. The complete password should preferably not be found in dictionaries. It should also not consist of common variants and repetition or keyboard patterns such as "asdfgh" or "1234abcd".

Adding simple numbers to the end of the password or using one of the usual special characters $ ! ? # at the beginning or end of a normally simple password is not recommended.

Recommendations

For the different criticality of the accounts, there are different recommendations:

• Category 1: At least 16 characters (admin accounts).

• Category 2: At least 12 characters (user/ viewer accounts).