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210-060 · Question #336

An engineer has implemented the pwrec command in a Cisco VCS appliance. This enables the engineer to perform which two actions? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is A. Change the admin password. B. Change the root password.. The pwrec command on Cisco VCS is a password recovery utility that allows resetting the two privileged system account passwords.

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Question

An engineer has implemented the pwrec command in a Cisco VCS appliance. This enables the engineer to perform which two actions? (Choose two.)

Options

  • AChange the admin password.
  • BChange the root password.
  • CChange any user account password.
  • DChange the SSH password.
  • EChange the Telnet password.

How the community answered

(51 responses)
  • A
    94% (48)
  • C
    4% (2)
  • E
    2% (1)

Why each option

The pwrec command on Cisco VCS is a password recovery utility that allows resetting the two privileged system account passwords.

AChange the admin password.Correct

The pwrec command on VCS explicitly supports changing the admin account password, which is the primary management account used for web and CLI administration.

BChange the root password.Correct

The pwrec command also allows changing the root account password, which provides underlying OS-level access, covering both high-privilege accounts on the appliance.

CChange any user account password.

The pwrec utility is scoped only to the admin and root accounts and does not provide a mechanism to reset arbitrary or custom user account passwords.

DChange the SSH password.

There is no separate SSH-specific password on VCS; SSH access is authenticated using the admin or root account credentials, so it is already covered by options A and B.

EChange the Telnet password.

Cisco VCS does not use Telnet as an access method by default, and pwrec does not reference a Telnet-specific password in its functionality.

Concept tested: Cisco VCS password recovery using pwrec

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/unified-communications/telepresence-video-communication-server-vcs/products-maintenance-guides-list.html

Topics

#VCS#pwrec command#password recovery#admin access

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