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Installation and Setup Guide for Cisco Secure ACS Appliance
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Chapter 4 Administering the Cisco Secure ACS Appliance
Reconfiguring Appliance System Parameters
Step 3 Type the new password, and then press Enter.
Note The new password must not contain the administrator account name, must
contain a minimum of 6 characters, and it must include a mix of at least
3 character types (numerals, special characters, upper case letters, and
lowercase letters). Each of the following examples is acceptable:
1PaSsWoRd, *password44, Pass*word.
Step 4 At the Set password again prompt, type the password again and then press
Enter.
Result: The system displays the following message on the console:
Password is set successfully.
Resetting the Appliance Administrator Name
There is always a single set of Cisco Secure ACS Appliance administrator
credentials consisting of administrator name and password. Unlike other ACS
administrative accounts, this unique administrative account is granted all
privileges, cannot be deleted, and is not listed in the Administrators table of the
Administrative Control page in the Cisco Secure ACS HTML user interface.
You can reset the Cisco Secure ACS Appliance administrator name, the
administrator password, or both. This procedure details how to reset the
administrator name after having logged on with the existing credentials. To reset
the password, see Resetting the Appliance Administrator Password, page 4-24.
If you do not have the existing Cisco Secure ACS Appliance administrator login
credentials with which to log on, you must have the recovery CD ROM to reset
these credentials. For information on resetting the administrator login and
password without first logging on, see Recovering from Loss of Administrator
Credentials, page 4-38.