Thanks I wasn’t sure if the Cisco process would get rid of any new user as well and remove its root access.so basically make the change as per your instruction and do what I need to do, then go and undo the read only in shadow file and stuff should w...

Thanks for the advice, I am sure the earns you an extra sticker from Cisco.

What does this shadow file do ? I know it stores the encrypted passwords. Wouldn’t there be a way to create a new user which would have root access and would not require the shadow file to be read only. There seems to be other commands which a change...

Has this CSCvo48356 ever been addressed. I just tried to install a clean ISE-2.7.0.356-virtual-SNS3615-SNS3655-300 and i am getting also the /opt/CSCOcpm/appsrv/apache-tomcat-ca/conf/ca_nssdb_password.txt (No such file or directory) as well as setfac...

Even so your thing works but it screws up a bunch. For example it no longer executes the show run or wr t in the ise admin CLI.