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password: can't login after "cli password admin read-write-all". unable to reset password

password: can't login after "cli password admin read-write-all". unable to reset password

schuert
New Contributor III

Hi Guys!

Recently i configured a new vsp 7254. i used the command “cli password admin read-write-all” to change the password and username. the system asked me to enter the old and new passwords and if I want to change the username. im pretty sure i didn’t mistype the password, but now i can’t login anymore. neither with rwa nor with admin and the new password.

i managed to login as user “rw” and set “boot config flags factorydefaults”. after a reboot the settings are gone but i still can only login with rw. rwa and admin are not working.

how to reset the logins?

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Dan15
Contributor

Try to delete these two hidden files from the filesystem and reboot:

.shadovnonfedmoc.txt

.shadov.txt

Maybe you have to use the attribute command to get permissions.

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schuert
New Contributor III

got it working again. deleting the .shadovnonfedmoc.txt wasn’t possible as user rw, changing the attributes wasn’t possible either. factory defaults didn’t reset the credentials, even when i deleted the config.cfg and used write mem to create a new one. in the end i used the following advice:

https://forums.networkinfrastructure.info/nortel-ethernet-switching/vsp-7200-restore-factory-default...

deleted the .shadownonfedmoc.txt and rebooted. after that i could login as user rwa again. changing the user with “cli password admin read-write-all” worked as intended. i’m not sure what caused the problem the first time. Thanks for the help!

Dan15
Contributor

Try to delete these two hidden files from the filesystem and reboot:

.shadovnonfedmoc.txt

.shadov.txt

Maybe you have to use the attribute command to get permissions.

EXTR_Paul
Extreme Employee

If you are locked out of the “rwa” account you need to open a GTAC ticket.

 

 

 

 

Miguel-Angel_RO
Valued Contributor II
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