Recovering The Administrator Password; Using The Cli With Network-Admin Privilege - Cisco DS-X9530-SF1-K9 - Supervisor-1 Module - Control Processor Configuration Manual

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Chapter 26
Configuring Users and Common Roles
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m .
Example 26-11 Displays Server Key Pair Details
switch# show ssh key
rsa1 Keys generated:Sun Jan 13 07:16:26 1980
1024 35
fingerprint:
1024 67:76:02:bd:3e:8d:f5:ad:59:5a:1e:c4:5e:44:03:07
could not retrieve rsa key information
dsa Keys generated:Sun Jan 13 07:40:08 1980
ssh-dss
AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAABBAJTCRQOydNRel2v7uiO6Fix+OTn8eGdnnDVxw5eJs5OcOEXOyjaWcMMYsEgxc9ada1NElp
8Wy7GPMWGOQYj9CU0AAAAVAMCcWhNN18zFNOIPo7cU3t7d0iEbAAAAQBdQ8UAOi/Cti84qFb3kTqXlS9mEhdQUo0lH
cH5bw5PKfj2Y/dLR437zCBKXetPj4p7mhQ6Fq5os8RZtJEyOsNsAAABAA0oxZbPyWeR5NHATXiyXdPI7j9i8fgyn9F
NipMkOF2Mn75Mi/lqQ4NIq0gQNvQOx27uCeQlRts/QwI4q68/eaw=
fingerprint:
512 f7:cc:90:3d:f5:8a:a9:ca:48:76:9f:f8:6e:71:d4:ae

Recovering the Administrator Password

You can recover the administrator password using one of two methods:

Using the CLI With Network-Admin Privilege

If you are logged in to, or can log into, the switch with a user name that has network-admin privileges,
you can recover the administrator password using the following steps:
Use the show user-accounts command to verify that your user name has network-admin privileges.
Step 1
switch# show user-account
user:admin
user:dbgusr
If your user name has network-admin privileges, issue the username command to assign a new
Step 2
administrator password.
switch# config t
switch(config)# username admin password <new password>
switch(config)# end
switch#
Save the software configuration.
Step 3
switch# copy running-config startup-config
OL-6973-03, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.x
From the CLI with a user name that has network-admin privileges.
Power cycling the switch.
this user account has no expiry date
roles:network-admin
this user account has no expiry date
roles:network-admin network-operator
Recovering the Administrator Password
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