Password Modification; Default Account Passwords - HP StoreFabric SN6500B Administrator's Manual

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The switch automatically prompts you to change the default account passwords after logging in for
the first time. If you do not change the passwords, the switch prompts you after each subsequent
login until all the default passwords have been changed.
NOTE
The default account passwords can be changed from their original values 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 "admin" account to
log in to the switch for the first time and to perform the basic configuration tasks. The password for
all of these accounts is "password".
There is only one set of default accounts for the entire chassis. 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, refer to
page 138.

Default account passwords

The change default account passwords prompt is a string that begins with the message "Please
change your passwords now". User-defined passwords can have from 8 through 40 characters.
They must begin with an alphabetic character and can include numeric characters, the period (.),
and the underscore ( _ ). They are case-sensitive, and they 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.
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SSH login CLI logs are not recorded in the command line history.
The CLI command log will be collected as part of any "supportsave" operation.
The command long record of such an operation will be the equivalent of running
"cliHistory --showall".
For CLI commands that require a password (Examples: firmwaredownload,
configupload/download, supportsave, and so on), only the command (no arguments) is stored
(see below for an illustration).
sw0:FID128:root> firmwaredownload -s -p scp 10.70.4.109,fvt,/dist,pray4green
Server IP: 10.70.4.109, Protocol IPv4
Checking system settings for firmwaredownload...
Failed to access scp://fvt:**********@10.70.4.109//dist/release.plist
sw0:FID128:root> clihistory
Date & Time
Wed May 23 03:39:37 2012

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