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Logging in to the AMI instance and setting the admin account password

As part of the process for upgrading an AMI instance, you must configure the password for the AMI admin account.

Steps

  1. Log in to the new AMI instance as admin using SSH with the key-pair that was used to launch the AMI.
  2. Set a password for the AMI admin account.
    You can set the same password that was used in the older AMI.
  3. Enter the following commands as shown in this screen:
    hostname> enable
    hostname# configure terminal
  4. Enter the following commands:
    hostname (config)# username admin password 0 password
    hostname (config)# write memory