Root account disabled

[prithvi]

Dear Team,

                   I am trying to login to my switch with the root creadential but now its showing the account is disabled. I need help to recover the root account

Your account is disabled; please contact your system administrator

[Michael_Morey]

Hello,

If you can login to the switch with the admin account, you simply need to do the following:

SLX# conf
Entering configuration mode terminal
SLX(config)# root enable
% Info: Root password is at system default, for better security, you may want to change it.
SLX(config)# 

[SagarSahni]

Hi Prithvi,

You can reset the root password by following this procedure with serial console access:

Procedure

1. Enter the reboot command.
2. Halt the boot process with Esc Key.
3. Select and enter the ONIE option.
4. Select and enter the ONIE: Rescue option.
5. Define the root login value for the root recover environment variable.

   ONIE:/ # bootenv VM_Root_Recover RootLogin

6. Enter the reboot command.

   ONIE:/ # reboot
   ONIE:/ # discover: Rescue mode detected. No discover stopped.
   Stopping: dropbear ssh daemon... done.

   The root account is now enabled. You can log in with the default password.
7. If the SLX-OS CLI is available, you can recover the root account by using the SLX-OS CLI root enable command.

BR,
Sagar Sahni