Workaround to avoid password change after ucs restore

Hello,

I am currently working on a migration projet using JOURNEYS.

One small issue we are facing is that after restoring ucs from old bigip on a new tenant after the JOURNEYS processing, the admin and root account password's are changed.

Off course, it is possible to change them if you are still connected through SSH with :

tmsh modify auth password root

 tmsh modify auth password admin

But if you forget it, or lost your session, it become much more complicated.

One workaround I found is to open the .ucs as an archive and remove the "/etc/shadow" file before the restoration.

I have found no articles about this solution, and no drawback yet.

Feel free to let me know if there is issues I have not seen yet or if it a tips you already know,

Cheers,

SamCo