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Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide 3-39
Publication Number: 53-0000518-09
Recovering Forgotten Passwords
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The following options are available:
6. Enter 3.
7. Enter the passwd command at the shell prompt.
8. Enter the boot PROM password at the prompt; then reenter it when prompted. The password must
be eight alphanumeric characters (any additional characters are not recorded). Record this
password for future use.
9. Enter the saveEnv command to save the new password.
10. Reboot the standby CP blade by entering the reset command.
11. Connect to the active CP blade by serial or telnet and enter the haEnable command to restore high
availability; then fail over the active CP blade by entering the haFailover command.
Traffic resumes flowing through the newly active CP blade after it has completed rebooting.
12. Connect the serial cable to the serial port on the new standby CP blade (previously the active
CP blade).
13. Repeat step 3 through step 10 for the new standby CP blade.
14. Connect to the active CP blade by serial or telnet and enter the haEnable command to restore high
availability.
Recovering Forgotten Passwords
Passwords can be recovered as follows:
• If you know the root password, you can use this procedure to recover the user, admin, and
factory passwords:
1. Open a CLI connection (serial or telnet) to the switch. If secure mode is enabled, connect to the
primary FCS switch.
2. Log in as root.
3. Enter the command for the type of password that was lost:
passwd user
passwd admin
passwd factory
4. Enter the requested information at the prompts.
Option Description
1 Start system. Continues the system boot process.
2 Recovery password. Lets you set the recovery string and the boot PROM password.
3 Enter command shell. Provides access to boot parameters.
N
ote
The passwd command applies only to the boot PROM password when it is entered from
the boot interface.