Password Recovery for Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls
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- Connect to the serial console of the FortiGate unit (9600-1-1)
- Boot up the FortiGate unit
- as username, enter
maintainer
- as password, enter
bcpb + SerialNo
- E.g. if the SerialNo is
FG100ETK18036180
, the password isbcpbFG100ETK18036180
- This has to be done within 14 seconds after the logon prompt appears
- Once logged in, you can either
- execute the command
execute factory reset
to set the unit to factory defaults, afterwards the password for the admin user will be empty. - if you want to keep the config, change the admin user's password using the command set
- execute the command
# config system admin edit admin set password end