Configure Failsafe-Account - Extreme Networks ExtremeWare XOS Command Reference Manual

Commands for Accessing the Switch

configure failsafe-account

configure failsafe-account
Description
Configures a name and password for the failsafe account.
Syntax Description
This command has no arguments or variables.
Default
The failsafe account is always configured.
Usage Guidelines
The failsafe account is the account of last resort to access your switch. This account is never displayed
by the command, but is always present on the switch.
show account
You will be prompted for the failsafe account name, and prompted twice to specify the password for the
account. For example:
BD-10808.1 # configure failsafe-account
enter failsafe user name: blue5green
enter failsafe password:
enter password again:
BD-10808.2
The failsafe account is immediately saved to NVRAM.
NOTE
The information that you use to configure the failsafe account cannot be recovered by Extreme
Networks. Technical support cannot retrieve passwords or account names for this account. Protect this
information carefully.
To access your switch using the failsafe account, you must be connected to the serial port of the switch.
You cannot access the failsafe account through any other port.
At the switch login prompt, carefully enter the failsafe account name. If you enter an erroneous account
name, you cannot re-enter the correct name.
Once you've entered the failsafe account name, you'll be prompted to enter the password. You will have
three tries to enter the password correctly.
Once you've successfully logged in to the failsafe account, you will see the following prompt:
failsafe>
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