Reset OS10 Admin Password
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- Connect to the serial console port. The serial settings are 115,200 baud, 8 data bits, and no parity.
- Reboot or power up the system.
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Press ESC at the Grub prompt to view the boot menu. The OS10-A partition is selected by default.
+-------------------------------------+ |*OS10-A | | OS10-B | | ONIE | +-------------------------------------+
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Press e to open the OS10 GRUB editor. 1.Use the arrow keys to navigate to the end of the line that has set os_debug_args= and then add init=/bin/bash.
+---------------------------------------------------------+ |setparams 'OS10-A' | | | | set os_debug_args="init=/bin/bash" | | select_image A | | boot_os | | | +---------------------------------------------------------+
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Press Alt + 0. The system boots to a root shell without a password.
- At the root prompt run
passwd admin
and set the password to whatever you want - Run
reboot -f
to reboot the system - When the system reboots log into the admin account with your new password. That password is temporary and is not permanently written to the system.
- Enter configuration mode with
configure terminal
and then runusername admin password <YOURPASSWORD> role sysadmin
to change the password - Run
write memory
to make the changes permanent.
Startup Config Location
/config/etc/opt/dell/os10/db_init/startup.xml