Reset RO user with RWA user

[jeronimo]

Hello,

I have one switch where an ro user has been set up (username changed from the default) and noone remembers the password.

Using "cli password newro read-only" it asks for the current password!? Even though I am logged in as RWA administrator!

User cannot be deleted since it is a "default" user.

How do I reset the account?

If that's not possible, what is the reason for it!? except for the fact that it has not been implemented 😉

Thanks

(FE 9.x)

[mneumann]

Worst case you can delete the "/intflash/.shadovnonfedmoc_512.txt" file, reboot the box and start with rwa/rwa 😉

[mario779petri]

Hello,

The device's CLI command structure is designed to only allow a password change for a specific user by that user, or it requires a command that operates at an even higher privilege level (like a dedicated root or super-administrator command) to reset another user's credentials. The cli password newro read-only command may be interpreted as "change the password for user newro," which logically requires the current password for newro to prevent an administrative mistake or lower-level admin from changing a higher-level admin's password accidentally. 

[Manoj_Kumar]

In CLI it asks for current password. Try alternate method using EDM.

Login to switch using EDM
Security -> Control Path -> General and the click CLI tab. Modify the ROPassword and click Apply

Test the new password via SSH session.

[jeronimo]

What sense would it make for GUI to allow to do this and CLI not?