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title: "Managing Passwords for Servers"
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# NIOS-X Virtual and Physical appliances

When deploying NIOS-X physical servers, you will initially use a default username and password. To ensure security, you will be prompted to change the default password when you first log in to the servers through the Infoblox Portal, Device UI, or debug-cli. Once you have changed the default password to a new password through one of the interfaces, you will not be prompted to change the default password again when you log in to the servers through other interfaces.

If you need to change the password again in the future, you can do so through the Infoblox Portal or Device UI when the server is online.

> ⚠️ - Only admin users have permissions to change the password.
> ⚠️ - Ensure that you record the password in a secure place so you do not forget it. If you forget the password and the NIOS-X server is disconnected, you will need to perform a factory reset.

# Changing Passwords through the Infoblox Portal

1. Log in to Infoblox Portal.
2. Go to **Network > Services & Servers > Servers**.
3. On the **Servers** page, select the check box of the NIOS-X physical server on which you want to change the password.
4. Click the **Server Actions** drop-down menu and select **Change Password**.
5. In the **Change Password** dialog, enter the new password and confirm it.
6. Click **Submit**.

# Changing Passwords through the Device UI

1. Log in to the Device UI.
2. Click Change Password on the left navigation.
3. In the Change Password section, click Change password.
4. In the **Change Password** dialog, enter the new password and confirm it.
5. Click **Confirm**.

For information about managing through the Device UI, see *[Troubleshooting Servers](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneInfrastructure/pages/184681229)*.

# **NIOS-X Baremetal **

For NIOS-X running on baremetal appliances that customer own and maintain, access to the device's user interface (UI) is granted using a configured system username and password. If a system username is configured for public key authentication via SSH and does not have a password set, that user will not be able to log in to the device UI.

> 📝 The login method using `admin` as the username and the last eight characters of the `ophid` as the password will be deprecated in a future release. Therefore, we strongly recommend using a standard system user for UI access instead of the `admin` account. To ensure future compatibility, we plan to use system password for `admin` user too in future.

**Special 'admin' User **

There is a special built-in user named `admin`. By default, the initial password for the `admin` user is the last eight characters of the appliance's `ophid`. You will be required to change this password upon your first login. once you change the password a new `admin` systemuser will be created if `admin` user already not present. If `admin` user is already present it will be untouched.