As part of the process for upgrading an AMI instance, you must configure the password for the AMI admin account.
Steps
- Log in to the new AMI instance as admin using SSH with the key-pair that was used to launch the AMI.
- Set a password for the AMI admin account.
You can set the same password that was used in the older AMI.
- Enter the following commands as shown in this screen:
hostname> enable
hostname# configure terminal
- Enter the following commands:
hostname (config)# username admin password 0 password
hostname (config)# write memory