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Changing the Password of User rdadmin

Scenarios

  • To improve O&M security, you are advised to change the user rdadmin's password of the client OS regularly and disable this user's remote login permission.
  • In Linux, user rdadmin does not have a password.
  • This section describes how to change the password of user rdadmin in Windows Server 2012. Change the password according to the actual situation in other versions.

Prerequisites

  • The username and password for logging in to the console have been obtained.
  • The username and password for logging in to a Windows ECS have been obtained.

Procedure

  1. Go to the ECS console and log in to the Windows ECS.
  2. Choose Start > Control Panel. In the Control Panel window, click User Accounts.
  3. On the displayed User Account Control dialog box, select rdadmin and click Reset Password.
  4. Enter the new password and click OK.
  5. In Task Manager, click the Services tab and then click Open Service.
  6. Select RdMonitor and RdNginx respectively. In the displayed dialog box, select Login, change the password to the one entered in Step 4, and click OK.