Changing The Administrative Password - Cisco 4700M Administration Manual

Chapter 1 Setting Up the ACE
Setting Up the ACE

Changing the Administrative Password

This section describes how to change the administrative password. During the initial login process to the
ACE, you enter the default user name admin and the default password admin in lowercase text. You
cannot modify or delete the default administrative username; however, for security reasons, you must
change the default administrative password. If you do not change the password, then security on your
ACE can be compromised because the administrative username and password are configured to be the
same for every ACE shipped from Cisco Systems.
The administrative username and password are stored in Flash memory. Each time that you reboot the
ACE, it reads the username and password from Flash memory. Global administrative status is assigned
to the administrative username by default.
For information about changing a user password, see the Cisco 4700 Series Application Control Engine
Note
Appliance Virtualization Configuration Guide.
You must change the default Admin password if you have not already done so. Otherwise, you can log
Caution
in to the ACE only through the console port.
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