I just performed an upgrade from v2.1.9g to v2.6.2d on a non-production switch. After the upgrade, I was prompted to set all of the default accounts' passwords (i.e. Root, factory, admin, and user). Is this always the case for these firmware upgrades? We have 3 others in a production fabric that are at v2.6.2a and, for some unknown reason, were setup so we must login as admin on one, factory on another, and root on the third. If the firmware upgrade forces setting all of the passwords, that would be wonderful since we want them all standardized to login as admin as they should be. Since I don't have a non-production switch that would require such a small incremental firmware upgrade, I figured someone here would probably know. That was the first thing I started looking for right after I submitted my lest reply. Can't seem to find anything on the HP site. Attached are the official Release notes from Brocade for 2.6.2 General and 2.6.2d specific. I did not find anything that mentions the password prompt though there were some security fixes it looks like. Found here if you have a Brocade Connect Account. ' ' Is the issue that you do not know the other passwords? Hi, I have a 10-switch Brocade Silkworm 2800 with firmware version 2.3. I would like to know what would happen if we need to upgrade or downgrade the firmware version in four switches. For the other accounts? A live one phish tribute band. You should be able to change all 3 passwords from any one of those accounts. We only know one password on each of the Brocades at this point in time. I tried using the passwd command to reset the ones we don't know, but it didn't work. On the switches I can login to as root and factory, when I do 'passwd admin' I get 'admin: undefined symbol'. On the one we know the admin password, I get 'syntax error' when I try to run the passwd command to change either factory or root. Unless the online help screen is totally erroneous, that looked like the correct syntax to me.:) We've used just 'passwd' before as people have left or we've reached our password expiry policy, but that apparently hasn't worked either because it prompts for the old passwords. We just upgraded firmware on two of the production Brocades last night. An HP CE replaced the system board in one of them as a follow-up service for a problem we had several weeks ago. That firmware version was v2.6.1a. The upgrade from v2.6.1a and from v2.6.2a to v2.6.2d did not force the password resets that upgrades from the older versions did. So, we are basically stuck in the same boat we were in. We need some way of resetting the passwords we don't know. This seems to be deep, dark, top secret information. The one thread I found on here from April made reference to the PasswordReset utility on Brocade's web site, but that utility didn't work on a test switch. (Not knowing how it accomplishes its claimed function of resetting a password across the entire fabric by accessing a switch with a known password just sounded too scary for me anyway for production equipment.) The original poster of that thread was told by HP support that it would take 4 to 5 hours of downtime on the switch to reset these?! That seems incredibly excessive offhand. Do they need to reprogram the thing by hand?:) Would welcome any insights or knowledge. I can always open a support call for it, but it strikes me this should not be an incredibly difficult thing to accomplish.
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