Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Troubleshooting Manual page 40

Recovering the Administrator Password
Command or Action
done.Configuring network ...
Installing psdev ...
Installing veobc ...
Installing OBFL driver ...
Starting portmap daemon...
creating NFS state directory: done
starting 8 nfsd kernel threads: done
starting mountd: done
starting statd: done
Loading system software
No system image is specified
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal
Bad terminal type: "linux". Will assume vt100.
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switch(boot)#
Step 10 Press Enter one or more times to return to the Cisco NX-OS
login prompt.
Example:
telnet> <Enter>
switch login:
Step 11 switch(boot)# config terminal
Example:
switch(boot)# config terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line.
with CNTL/Z.
switch(boot)(config)#
Step 12 switch(boot)(config)# admin-password new-password
Example:
switch(boot)(config)# admin-password egBdf
WARNING! Remote Authentication for login through
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Troubleshooting Guide, Release 7.x
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Troubleshooting Installations, Upgrades, and Reboots
Purpose
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Enters boot configuration mode.
End
Resets the network administrator password.
Note If you are performing this password recovery
procedure because the username was not
specified in the configuration file when you
performed a copy configuration-file
startup-config followed by the fast-reload
or reload command, skip this step, enter the
write erase command instead, and then go to
the next step.