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Brocade password change fails due to no space left on device

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Applies to

  • Brocade Switch
  • Brocade FabricOS (FOS) 9.2.0a or earlier

Issue

  • Unable to log in to Brocade switches using the admin user due to expired password
  • SSH sessions are closed by the remote side after authentication
  • AD account can log in but receives RBAC permission denied for most commands
  • Password changes fail due to inability to write to the password file:
Your password has expired. Please change your password now.
Changing password for user
Enter old password:
Enter new password:
Re-type new password:
error writing entries to old password file: No space left on device
free(): double free detected in tcache 2
/fabos/bin/passwd: line 257: 10306 Aborted /bin/passwd

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