Set the admin
Password for the Main IP Fabric GUI
Set admin
Password via IPF CLI Config Tool
-
Connect to your IP Fabric appliance via SSH as the
osadmin
user. -
Run:
sudo ipf-cli-config -u
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Select
Yes
to proceed: -
Enter the new
admin
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.
-
Select
No
to prevent rebooting the system.
Create a User with Administrative Privileges via CLI
The IPF CLI Config
tool can only create the admin
user for the main GUI. If you need to create an additional user with administrative privileges or if you have forgotten the password for the admin
user and you need to log in to the GUI as a different user, follow these steps:
-
Connect to your IP Fabric appliance via SSH as the
osadmin
user. -
Switch to the
root
user using the following command:sudo su
-
Navigate to the
/opt/ipf-backend-cli-tools
directory:cd /opt/ipf-backend-cli-tools
-
Run the following command:
bin/ipf-backend-cli-tools create-admin-user --username <name_of_admin_user> --password <password_of_admin_user>