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san_239682
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Mar 03, 2016

resetting lost/forget admin and root password on F5 BIG IP

Can anyone suggest how to reset the forgotten root and admin password on F5 BigIP devices( running on 11.x and 10.x versions)   Do we need need to provide same password for root and admin? How d...
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Brad_Parker
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Mar 03, 2016

First to reset the lost passwords you can go into the /config/bigip_user.conf file and change the "encrypted-password" field to password yourTempPassword. After you do that you can then load it via tmsh load sys config user-only. Once you do that, you can then change them in the GUI to something permanent so it re-encrypts them in the config file.

 

In an HA scenario, those accounts should sync with each other so no need to make them the same ahead of time.

 

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san_239682
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Mar 03, 2016
Hi Brad Thanks for your response. Can you please confirm whether this root and admin passwords reside on bigip_user.conf file.