Setup Guide

Security
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∙ Device authentication .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 64
∙ Protocol and certificate management ..................................................................................................................................................................64
∙ SNMP .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................65
∙ FIPS .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................66
Passwords
The following section describes various ways to recover forgotten passwords.
Symptom User forgot password.
Probable cause and recommended action If you know the root password, you can use this procedure to recover the password for the default
accounts of user and admin. If you do not know the root password, you must contact your service
support provider to recover admin passwords.
Recovering passwords
1. Open a CLI connection (serial or Telnet) to the switch.
2. Log in as root.
3. Enter the command for the type of password that was lost:
passwd user
passwd admin
4. Enter the requested information at the prompts.
Symptom Unable to log in as root password.
Probable cause and recommended action To recover your root password, contact your switch service provider.
Symptom Unable to log into the boot PROM.
Probable cause and recommended action To recover a lost boot PROM password, contact your switch service provider. You must have
previously set a recovery string to recover the boot PROM password.
This does not work on lost or forgotten passwords in the account database.
Password recovery options
Table 11 describes the options available when one or more types of passwords are lost.
TABLE 11
Password recovery options
Topic Solution
If all the passwords are forgotten, what is the password recovery
mechanism? Are these procedures non-disruptive recovery procedures?
Contact your switch service provider. A non-disruptive procedure is
available.
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