Instructions for using Breakglass Access system

 

Author: Nick Collier

Date: 13th October 2019

Version: 0.1

 

Summary: The system works by issuing you with an initial username and password. When breakglass access is needed, you login with the initial username and password and create a real set of credentials (username, password and crypto key). You must then wait for three days before these credentials become active. (This period gives the owner a chance to deny the real credentials. In the absence of any action by the owner, the default position is that the real credentials will become active).

 

Your initial username________________________________

Your initial password_________________________________

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: ALL PASSWORDS GIVEN AND GENERATED ARE CASE SENSITIVE. YOU WILL NOT GET ACCESS UNLESS YOU USE THE RIGHT CASE. IN CASE YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS – USERNAMES AND PASSWORDS MAY HAVE CAPITAL LETTERS AND LOWERCASE LETTERS. YOU MUST TYPE THESE AS GIVEN.

 

1.       Navigate to https://polar-it.co.uk/breakglass/

 

2.       If you receive a certificate error, please tell the browser to continue away. In Firefox, you click “Advanced”: “Accept Risk and Continue”.

 

 

 

3.       Click the link to gain access.

 

4.       Click the checkbox to accept the security declaration (assuming that you accept the declaration), and click submit.

 

5.       Enter your initial credentials in the top set of login fields.

 

6.       Enter the details requested to create the new access account. Please note the password complexity requirements of 4 to 8 characters, and password must contain an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter and a number.

 

7.       The next screen will provide a record of the real credentials that you will need to record securely. Note that there are now three fields that need to be used, the username, password and crypto key.

 

Your real username________________________________

Your real password_________________________________

Your crypto key____________________________________

 

 

8.       At this point your real account is in progress, and you can discard your initial login credentials. You will need to wait 3 days before attempting to log in with the above credentials.

 

9.       After waiting 3 days, navigate to the access page using lines 1 through 4 above, and put your credentials into the three boxes on the second row.

 

 

10.   Once you click submit, you will be taken to the breakglass data page.