Changing Default Account Passwords At Login; Default Administrative Account Names And Passwords - HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Administrator's Manual

NOTE: The default account passwords can be changed from their original value only when prompted
immediately following the login; the passwords cannot be changed using the passwd command later in
the session. If you skip the prompt, and then later decide to change the passwords, log out and then back
in.
The default accounts on the switch are admin, user, root, and factory. Use the default administrative
account as shown in
tasks.
Every logical switch (domain) has a set of default accounts. The root and factory default accounts are
reserved for development and manufacturing. The user account is primarily used for system monitoring. For
more information on default accounts, see
Table 3 describes the default administrative accounts for switches by model number.
Table 3

Default administrative account names and passwords

Model
HP StorageWorks 4/8 SAN Switch, 4/16 SAN
Switch, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class
BladeSystem, Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP
c-Class BladeSystem, SAN Switch 4/32, 4/64 SAN
Switch, SAN Switch 4/32B, 8/8 SAN Switch, 8/24
SAN Switch, 8/40 SAN Switch, 8/80 SAN Switch
400 Multi-protocol Router
4/256 SAN Director and DC SAN Backbone Director
(short name, DC Director)

Changing default account passwords at login

The change default account passwords prompt is a string that starts with Please change your
passwords now. The default password contains a maximum of eight characters. User-defined passwords
can have 8 to 40 characters. They must begin with an alphabetic character and can include numeric
characters, the period (.) and the underscore ( _ ). They are case-sensitive, and are not displayed when
you enter them on the command line.
Record the passwords exactly as entered and store them in a secure place because recovering passwords
requires significant effort and fabric downtime. Although the root and factory accounts are not meant for
general use, change their passwords if prompted to do so and save the passwords in case they are needed
for recovery purposes.
To change the default account passwords at login:
1. Connect to the switch and log in using the default administrative account.
2. At each of the Enter new password prompts, either enter a new password or skip the prompt.
26 Standard features
Table 3 to log into the switch for the first time and to perform the basic configuration
"About the default accounts" on page 61.
Administrative
account
admin
,
admin
Password
password
password