Lucent Technologies Octel Unified Messenger Concepts and Planning Guide 101-1620-005 - Manual (Page 78)

Octel Unified Messenger Concepts & Planning Guide
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Subscriber
password for the
telephone user
interface Octel Unified Messenger subscribers maintain a password for accessing
their voice mail through the telephone user interface. They can do this
either from Octel Unified Messenger Options on their desktop PC or
through the telephone user interface.
The administrator enables a subscriber account for voice messaging and
determines the initial password for telephone access. The initial password
can be a randomly generated number. When subscribers access the voice
mail system through the telephone user interface for the first time, they
are prompted to change their passwords. Administrators can reset a
subscriber password at any time, but they are unable to view the
password.
Subscriber passwords for the telephone user interface can be from 0 to 32
digits in length. The Octel Unified Messenger administrator establishes
the minimum password length as a system-wide parameter. Increasing the
number of digits in a password lowers the probability that an
unauthorized user might guess it. Table 6-1 shows the probability of
guessing a password correctly, as a function of the length of the password.
With a 6-digit password, the probability of guessing a password is 1 in
900,000.