HP VPN Firewall Appliances System Management and Maintenance Configuration Guide
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Figure 21 Dealing with password loss
Examining the state of password recovery
capability
1. Reboot the device. The following information appears:
System is starting...
Press Ctrl+D to access BASIC-BOOTWARE MENU
Press Ctrl+T to start heavy memory test
Booting Normal Extend BootWare........
The Extend BootWare is self-decompressing.....Done!
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* HP SecPath Series BootWare, Version 1.19 *
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Compiled Date : Jul 5 2013
CPU Type : xxxx
CPU Clock Speed : 1400MHz
Memory Type : DDR3 SDRAM
Memory Size : 4096MB
Memory Speed : 1333MHz
BootWare Size : 768KB
Flash Size : 8MB
Password lost
Yes
No
Save the running configuration
Reboot to access EXTEND-
BOOTWARE menu
Enter 6 to skip console login
authentication
Reboot to access EXTEND-
BOOTWARE menu
Enter 8 to clear user privilege level
password
Reboot
Configure new passwords in
system view
Reboot to access EXTEND-
BOOTWARE menu
Enter 5 to restore factory defaults
Console login
password lost
User privilege level
password lost
Password recovery capability
enabled?