Network+™: Study Guide, Fourth Edition

8.2. Managing User Account and Password Security

Usernames and passwords are key to network security, and you use them to control initial access to your system. Although the network administrator assigns usernames and passwords, users can generally change their passwords. Thus, you need to ensure that users have information about what constitutes a good password. In the following sections, we'll look at the security issues related to user accounts and passwords, including resource-sharing models and user account and password management.

8.2.1. Network Resource-Sharing Security Models

You can secure files that are shared over the network in two ways:

• At the share level

• At the user level

Although user-level security provides more control over ...