Reset Password for User Account

1	Introduction
1.1	Prerequisites
2	Procedure

1 Introduction

This document describes how the administrator can reset password for a local Operation and Maintenance (O&M) user account.

Local user password must be reset when the user account has been locked, for example, because of password expiry. The password reset does not automatically unlock the user account; a separate unlock operation must be performed after the password reset.

The system forces the user to update their password when it has been reset by administrator.

1.1 Prerequisites

This section describes the prerequisites, which must be fulfilled before using the procedure.

1.1.1 Conditions

The following conditions must apply:

The user has sufficient access rights to perform the task, for example, the user has Local Authentication Administrator role.
An Ericsson Command-Line Interface (ECLI) session in Exec mode is in progress.
The username for the local user account is known. In this document, username is joedoe.
The administrator has constructed a new password for user joedoe according to settings in the PasswordQuality Managed Object (MO) and PasswordPolicy MO.

2 Procedure

To reset a password for a local O&M user account:

Navigate to the UserAccountM MO, for example:
>dn ManagedElement=NODE06ST,SystemFunctions=1,SecM=1,UserManagement=1,LocalAuthenticationMethod=1,UserAccountM=1
Select user account, for example:
(UserAccountM=1)>UserAccount=joedoe
Reset the password:
(UserAccount=joedoe)>resetPassword --password

Enter password: <password>

(UserAccount=joedoe)>resetPassword --password ********
Verify that the password change time has been updated with current time, for example:
(UserAccount=joedoe)>show passwordChangedTime
```
passwordChangedTime=”2015-01-19T12:31:59Z”
```
Verify that the user is forced to change the password at next logon, for example:
(UserAccount=joedoe)>show passwordState

The following is an example output:
passwordState=EXPIRED_MUSTCHANGE