Dealing With Password Loss; Disabling Password Recovery Capability - HP 830 Series Configuration Manual

Dealing with password loss

CAUTION:
Dealing with console login password loss and user privilege level password loss from BootWare menus is
disruptive.
How to deal with console login password loss and user privilege level password loss depends on the
state of password recovery capability (see
user access to the device configuration and SDRAM from BootWare menus.
If password recovery capability is enabled, a console user can access the device configuration
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without authentication and configure new passwords.
If password recovery capability is disabled, a console user must restore the factory-default
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configuration before configuring new passwords. Restoring the factory-default configuration deletes
the main and backup next-startup configuration files.
To enhance system security, disable password recovery capability.
Figure 36 Dealing with password loss

Disabling password recovery capability

Password recovery capability controls console user access to the device configuration and SDRAM from
BootWare menus.
Figure 36). Password recovery capability controls console
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