C H A P T E R 9

What To Do If You Have Lost The Password to Your System Controller

If you lose your password to the System Controller, do the following:

1. Remove and then re-insert one of the power supplies.

2. Within five minutes of re-inserting the power supply, set up a serial connection to the SSC containing the active System Controller and log in as user admin.

For information about setting up a serial connection to the SSC, see the Sun Fire B1600 Blade System Chassis Hardware Installation Guide.

To log in, type the default user name admin and when prompted for a password, press [ENTER].:

username: admin

password: [ENTER]

3. At the sc> prompt, set a new password for the default user (admin).

To set a new password for user admin, type:

sc>password

Enter new password:*****

Enter new password again: *****

New password set for user admin successfully

sc>

The password you specify can be up to eight characters long. It must begin with an alphabetic character, and it must contain at least one lower-case alphabetic character. You can use any of the following characters in the password:

Alphabetic

Numeric

Period (.)

Underscore (_)

Hyphen (-)

4. Set up a new user name and password for yourself.

To do this, follow the instructions in Chapter 3 of this manual.