Tech Tip: Recovering a Locked Administrator Account in Storage Center OS v6.5
If all accounts are inaccessible because they have been disabled or locked‐out, use this procedure to re‐ establish a local Administrator account and reset passwords.
Prerequisites
This procedure requires a USB device that contains a partition table with one partition formatted with an MSDOS/FAT32 filesystem. USB devices vary by vendor as to whether they are formatted with or without partitions. Use Windows disk management or other third‐party tools to create a partition if the USB device does not have an MSDOS/FAT32 partition.
Steps
1 Create a text file containing the following line of text:
unlock <username>
where <username> is typically the Admin username. The Admin account is always on the system and it has the required Administrator privileges to reset passwords.
2 Save the file and name it: unlock.phy
3 Copy the file to a MSDOS/FAT32 formatted USB drive.
Note: Portable Volume is unavailable during the recovery process.
4 Insert the USB drive into a port on the lead controller. When the media is recognized, System Manager allows the specified account to log on.
5 Log on to System Manager using the account specified on the USB drive. The password cannot be blank, but any text entered will be ignored.
6 Unlock locked accounts.
7 Reset passwords on accounts.
8 Remove the USB drive from the port.
