Brocade Fabric OS Administrator's Guide - Supporting Fabric OS v7.0.1 (53-1002446-01, March 2012)

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Password modification

The switch automatically prompts you to change the default account passwords after logging in for

the first time. If you do not change the passwords, the switch prompts you after each subsequent

NOTE

The default account passwords can be changed from their original values only when prompted

immediately following the login; the passwords cannot be changed using the passwd command later

in the session. If you skip the prompt, and then later decide to change the passwords, log out and

then back in.

The default accounts on the switch are admin, user, root, and factory. Use the “admin” account to

all of these accounts is “password”.

There is only one set of default accounts for the entire chassis. The root and factory default

accounts are reserved for development and manufacturing. The user account is primarily used for

system monitoring. For more information on default accounts, refer to “Default accounts” on

page 85.

Default account passwords

The change default account passwords prompt is a string that begins with the message “Please

change your passwords now”. User-defined passwords can have from 8 through 40 characters.

They must begin with an alphabetic character and can include numeric characters, the period (.),

and the underscore ( _ ). They are case-sensitive, and they are not displayed when you enter them

on the command line.

Record the passwords exactly as entered and store them in a secure place because recovering

passwords requires significant effort and fabric downtime. Although the root and factory accounts

are not meant for general use, change their passwords if prompted to do so and save the

passwords in case they are needed for recovery purposes.

Changing the default account passwords at login

1. Connect to the switch and log in using the default administrative account.

2. At each of the “Enter new password” prompts, either enter a new password or skip the prompt.

To skip a single prompt, press Enter. To skip all of the remaining prompts, press Ctrl-C.

Example output of changing passwords

Password:

Please change your passwords now.

Use Control-C to exit or press 'Enter' key to proceed.

for user - root

Changing password for root

Enter new password: <hidden>

Password changed.

Saving password to stable storage.

Password saved to stable storage successfully.

(output truncated)