password

Syntax

Allows the current CLI user to change their password.

Caution

For system security reasons, we strongly recommend that you do not establish Linux shell users in addition to the pre-defined admin on any appliance.

Note

The password command is not supported in export mode. To reset password of an admin user on a secure firewall system, see Learn more. If you use password command in expert mode to reset admin password, we recommend you to reconfigure the password using configure user admin password command. After you reconfigure the password, switch to expert mode and ensure that the password hash for admin user is same in /opt/cisco/config/db/sam.config and /etc/shadow files.

After issuing the command, the CLI prompts the user for their current (or old) password, then prompts the user to enter the new password twice.


configure password

Example


> configure password
Changing password for admin.
(current) UNIX password: 
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully