Update osadmin
Password
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Connect to your IP Fabric appliance via SSH as the
osadmin
user. -
Run:
sudo ipf-cli-config -t
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Select
Yes
to proceed:Warning
Changing the
osadmin
password will affect:- CLI access
- backup encryption
Backups created before the password change will no longer be restorable:
- All backups are encrypted using the
osadmin
password that was set at the time of their creation. - This means that if you change the
osadmin
password, any backups created prior to the change will no longer be restorable—unless you temporarily revert the password back to the original one used when the backups were made. - If you attempt to restore a backup with an incorrect password, the system will not display any available backups, as it won’t be able to decrypt them.
- Before changing the
osadmin
password, ensure that you’ve either restored all necessary backups or are prepared to create new ones using the new password.
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Enter the new
osadmin
password twice:Password setup contains password complexity check; simple passwords are rejected.
Password requirements are as follows:
- The maximum password length is 256.
- Single-character class passwords are not supported.
- Two-character class must be at least 24 characters long.
- The minimal length of the passphrase is 24 characters.
- Three-character class must be at least 16 characters long.
- Four-character class must be at least 12 characters long.
- The passphrase must have at least five words.
The character classes are:
- digits
- lower-case letters
- upper-case letters
- other characters
There is also a special class for non-ASCII characters, which could not be classified but are assumed to be non-digits.
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Select
Yes
to reboot the system: