topic Re: Default Username and Password in Network Access Control

Default Username and Password

ryanmbess — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:41:49 GMT

During the install of Cisco ISE you are prompted for a username / password. This account then appears to be the account you can use to SSH into ISE AND Web Auth to ISE. My question is are these two seperate accounts that just happen to have the same username/password ONLY at time of creation? Meaning, I can change the account password within SSH and that would have no impact on the account used to log into ISE via HTTPS.

Re: Default Username and Password

Rob Ingram — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:47:39 GMT

@ryanmbess the ISE Admin accounts for GUI and CLI are separate accounts, the passwords are synced during setup.

You can change the CLI Admin password, enter the command password

And to change the GUI Admin password, the command is application reset-passwd ise admin newpassword

Re: Default Username and Password

ryanmbess — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:53:10 GMT

Can you point me to any documentation? Can these accounts be subject to different password requirements?

Re: Default Username and Password

Rob Ingram — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:57:47 GMT

@ryanmbess

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/3-0/admin_guide/b_ISE_admin_3_0/b_ISE_admin_30_deployment.html?bookSearch=true

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/3-1/cli_guide/b_ise_cli_reference_guide_31/b_ise_CLIReferenceGuide_31_chapter_011.html#wp1567780293

Re: Default Username and Password

stephenJackson2 — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:11:17 GMT

For any that are having issues logging into the GUI of an AWS deployed ISE instance, the username is not 'admin' but 'iseadmin'. When deploying with the CFT the parameters define the default username as such. I'm unsure why this is, in the parameters it clearly states "username=admin" but when viewing the password ParameterKey it shows "Enter a password for the username \"iseadmin\".

Re: Default Username and Password

aptii — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:10:22 GMT

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/ISE_on_Cloud/b_ISEonCloud/m_ISEaaS.html#known-limitations-for-using-cisco-ise-on-aws

An initial administrator user account name, iseadmin, is generated by default. This user account name is used for both SSH and GUI access to Cisco ISE after the installation process is complete.