Service password-recovery – Dell PowerEdge VRTX User Manual

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User Guidelines

When the administrator configures a new enable password, this password is

encrypted automatically and saved to the configuration file. No matter how

the password was entered, it appears in the configuration file with the

keyword encrypted and the encrypted value.
If the administrator wants to manually copy a password that was configured

on one switch (for instance, switch B) to another switch (for instance, switch

A), the administrator must add encrypted in front of this encrypted password

when entering the enable command in switch A. In this way, the two switches

will have the same password.
Passwords are encrypted by default. You only are required to use the

encrypted keyword when you are actually entering an encrypted keyword.
Examples
Example 1
- The command sets a password that has already been encrypted.

It will copied to the configuration file just as it is entered. To use it, the user

must know its unencrypted form.

console(config)# enable password encrypted

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service password-recovery

Use the service password-recovery Global Configuration mode command to

enable the password-recovery mechanism. This mechanism allows an end

user, with physical access to the console port of the device, to enter the boot

menu and trigger the password recovery process. Use the no service password-

recovery command to disable the password-recovery mechanism. When the

password-recovery mechanism is disabled, accessing the boot menu is still

allowed and the user can trigger the password recovery process. The difference

is, that in this case, all the configuration files and all the user files are

removed. The following log message is generated to the terminal: “All the

configuration and user files were removed”.

Syntax

service password-recovery
no service password-recovery

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