Uniview Weak Local / Strong Remote Password Policy Tested
By: Ethan Ace, Published on Mar 14, 2017
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Comments (4)
Vincent Scarpelli
This isn't bad per say but I much prefer strong passwords everywhere. And I prefer minimum 5 character user names as well.
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Decoux Guilhem
As distributor from UNV I prefer strong password everywhere, but we have to keep in mind the needs from some final users, so weak password might still useful for some of them on LAN and local video output.
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Truman HW
lets just remember one password per device, no ?
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