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Alain1
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Nov 29, 2022

BIG-IP Forgotten password

Hello, i am running F5 BIG-IP on vmware. i forgot the password for the root username.  by that i am not able to access F5 GUI through it's management IP address. how to change the root password from...
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    Alain1
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    Nov 30, 2022

    thank you mohamad, i did this step and password changed succesfully but when reboot and try to login with my new password it's not working

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      Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh
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      Nov 30, 2022

      Could you please repeat the steps located in this KB : https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K35811337
      maybe there are some missing points , as I followed it and tested it on my lab and it worked great. 

      > also make sure with your bootlocation such as "HD1.1 or HD1.2 .... " to mount 

      mount /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-set.2._config /sysroot/config
mount /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-set.2._var /sysroot/var

      there are platforms uses vda instead of sda so you need to change it in each mount script. 

      Try it and keep me updated