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Hannes_Rapp
Mar 03, 2016Nimbostratus
Perhaps you have another account with full admin rights you can still use? This would suffice to update the root and admin account passwords.
If not, check out section "Resetting a lost or forgotten root password" @ https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/300/sol3350.html
Once you have the root account access, you can normally set the admin password to anything you want in TMSH (i.e.
tmsh modify auth user admin password NewPasswoRd
). Only problem is that once you do that, you may have to re-configure the HA cluster. Put your standby appliance to Forced Offline state before you begin to ensure no unintended cluster failovers can occur as the cluster breaks.