Reset Prism Admin Password

The following method could be used to reset the Prism “admin” user password.




Connect to the CVM_IP_Address with SSH client using account “nutanix” and password “nutanix/4u”


Run the following command “reset_admin_password.py”, that will reset the “admin” user password to factory settings and store it back in the Zeus User Repository.




Back to the Prism Interface and log on using the account: admin and Password: admin



Now, you will need to overwrite/create a new password for the admin account.




You can notice an event under the Alerts page with the latest password change.



5 comments:

  1. i tried but it threw and error, and found the article on portal which says to use the below command and it works.

    ncli user reset-password user-name="admin" password="Nutanix/4u"

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  2. Once "reset_password.py" script is executed on CVM, login to prism interface via username: admin and password: Nutanix/4u.

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  3. No longer works as of 2020. Resetting the password works, but admin is no longer the default password

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