A new user created during
installation is named as efainternal user.
About this task
The installation or upgrade of XCO creates a new user on the host
with a random password. The name of this new user is efainternal user. Prior to XCO 3.2.0 (EFA 3.1.0 or earlier),
changing the password of an efainternal user impacts the functionality of EFA.
Procedure
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To update the password of
‘efainternal‘ user in XCO, run the following
script:
The script is available
in the
/apps/efa/ in TPVM and
/opt/efa directory
on a
server.
extreme@tpvm:~$ sudo bash /apps/efa/update-password.sh --help
/opt/efa/update-password.sh Usage:
--help - show this message
--username <user_name>, name of the user
--password <password>, - OPTIONAL, password for the user
--random-password, -OPTIONAL, sets a random password to the user
--update-reference-only, -OPTIONAL, updates reference without any password change, this is applicable for 'efainternal' user
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To assign a random password, skip the password parameters.
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To manually update a password on
the host of all the nodes of XCO, run the following script with the
update-reference-only parameter:
user@ubuntu:/opt $ sudo bash /opt/efa/update-password.sh --username efainternal
Password:
Saving EFA user information for this node
Password update is successful.
