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CHAPTER 41
Recovering a Lost Password
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Recovering a Lost Password, page 633
Recovering a Lost Password
Password Recovery for the Admin Account
The admin account is the system administrator or superuser account. If an administrator loses the password
to this account, you can have a serious security issue. As a result, the procedure to recover the password for
the admin account requires you to power cycle all fabric interconnects in a Cisco UCS domain.
When you recover the password for the admin account, you actually change the password for that account.
You cannot retrieve the original password for that account.
You can reset the password for all other local accounts through Cisco UCS Manager. However, you must log
in to Cisco UCS Manager with an account that includes aaa or admin privileges.
This procedure requires you to power down all fabric interconnects in a Cisco UCS domain. As a result,
all data transmission in the Cisco UCS domain is stopped until you restart the fabric interconnects.
Caution
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