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cxcal_18687's avatar
cxcal_18687
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Nov 04, 2008

root recovery

Anyone ever recover the root password for a x4.5.14. Inherited this HA pair that are actually Dell 2650's.

 

 

 

System belly up'd this morning and old administrator is gone.

 

 

Still checking SOLs but no luck so far.

 

 

any help would be great!

 

 

management
monitoring
  • James_Quinby_46's avatar
    James_Quinby_46
    Historic F5 Account
    Nov 04, 2008
    Wasn't the older stuff based on BSD? I should think you'd be able to interrupt the boot process and boot into single-user mode, then reset the password that way.
  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Nov 04, 2008
    SOL2526 should help if you need detailed steps:

     

     

    SOL2526: Adding, removing, and changing user accounts and passwords on BIG-IP and 3-DNS (Click here)

     

     

    Aaron
  • Singh_74932's avatar
    Singh_74932
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    Nov 05, 2008
    I tried it once too :

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&postid=24275&view=topic

     

  • cxcal_18687's avatar
    cxcal_18687
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    Nov 05, 2008
    Yeap.. SOL2526 did the trick..

     

     

    Thanks for the help. Bookmarked it I'm sure it will not be the last time I use it!!