Brocade Secure Fabric OS Administrator's Guide (53-1000244-01, November 2006)

4-10 Secure Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide
Publication Number: 53-1000244-01
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Modifying Passwords in Secure Mode
Use the passwd command to modify the fabric-wide user password and the passwords for the FCS
switches. Use the secNonFCSPasswd to modify the admin password for non-FCS switches.
Modifying the FCS Switch Passwords or the Fabric-Wide User
Password
The passwd command can be used to modify the passwords for the following accounts when secure
mode is enabled:
• The fabric-wide user account
• The admin, root, and factory accounts on the FCS switches
• MUA passwords for user-defined accounts
To modify the passwords
1. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in to the primary FCS switch as admin, root, or factory,
depending on which password you want to modify (use the account for which you want to modify a
password or a higher-level account).
2. Type the passwd command.
3. Type the new passwords at the prompts. The passwords can be anywhere between 8 and 40
alphanumeric characters in length.
The passwords are distributed to all switches in the fabric and saved in the Secure Fabric OS
database. Any existing telnet connections to the switches are terminated and must be reinitiated if
access is required.
Modifying the Non-FCS Switch Admin Password
Use the secNonFCSPasswd command to modify the password for the admin account on non-FCS
switches. Secure mode must be enabled to use this command.
To modify the admin password for non-FCS switches
1. From a sectelnet or SSH session, log in to the primary FCS switch as admin.
2. Type the secNonFCSPasswd command.
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If the password is changed for a login account, all open sessions using that account are terminated,
including the session from which the passwd command was executed, if applicable.
switch:admin> passwd "admin"
Changing password for admin
Enter new password:
Re-type new password:
Password changed.
Saving password to stable storage.
Password saved to stable storage successfully.