Local User Account Database Distribution; Distributing The Local User Database; Accepting Distributed User Databases On The Local Switch - HP StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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Local user account database distribution

Changing the password for a different account
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the passwd command specifying the name of the account for which the password is
3. Enter the requested information at the prompts.

Local user account database distribution

Fabric OS allows you to distribute the user database and passwords to other switches in the fabric.
When the switch accepts a distributed user database, it replaces the local user database with the
user database it receives.
By default, switches accept the user databases and passwords distributed from other switches.
The 'Locked' status of a user account is not distributed as part of local user database distribution.
When the user database is distributed, it may be rejected by a switch for one of the following
reasons:
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Distributing the local user database

When the local user database is distributed, all user-defined accounts residing in the receiving
switches are logged out of any active sessions.
1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the distribute -p PWD -d command.
NOTE
If Virtual Fabrics mode is enabled and there are logical switches defined other than the default
logical switch, then distributing the password database to switches is not supported.
Distributing the password database to switches is not allowed if there are users associated with user
defined roles in either the sending switch or remote switch

Accepting distributed user databases on the local switch

1. Connect to the switch and log in using an account with admin permissions.
2. Enter the fddCfg --localaccept PWD command.
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being changed.
One of the target switches does not support local account database distribution.
One of the target switch's user database is protected.
One of the remote switches has logical switches defined.
Either the local switch or one of the remote switches has user accounts associated with
user-defined roles.
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