HP VPN Firewall Appliances System Management and Maintenance Configuration Guide

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Dealing with password loss
CAUTION:
Dealing with console login password loss and user privilege level password loss from BootWare menus is
disruptive.
How to deal with console login password loss and user privilege level password loss depends on the
state of password recovery capability (see Figure 21). You can use one of the following methods to deal
with p
assword loss:
• Dealing with console login password loss when password recovery capability is enabled
• Dealing with user privilege level password loss when password recovery capability is enabled
• Dealing with password loss when password recovery capability is disabled
P
asswo
rd recovery capability controls console user access to the device configuration and SDRAM from
BootWare menus. You can configure this feature by using the password-recovery enable command.
• If password recovery capability is enabled, a console user can access the CLI without
authentication to reconfigure new passwords.
• If password recovery capability is disabled, a console user must restore the factory-default
configuration before configuring new passwords.
By default, password recovery capability is enabled.
NOTE:
Restoring the factory-default configuration deletes the next-startup configuration file.
Figure 21 shows the process for dealing with password loss events.