How to recover VCS GUI admin password

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To reset or update the VCS admin account password, user needs to open an elevated command prompt and follow below steps


1. Make VCS configuration writable:

# haconf -makerw

2. Run the command to update admin password:

# hauser -update admin
Enter New:
Enter Again:

3. Save the configuration and make it read-only.

# haconf -dump -makero

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Issue/Introduction

There are instances wherein the cluster admin might forget the password and fails to login. Although there is no account lockout policy for VCS Java Console, there may arise situations wherein the password needs to be reset due to multiple reasons.