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April 24, 2025

Troubleshooting Tip: 'old-password' error when restoring full configuration without password

  • April 24, 2025
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Description This article is providing additional information about an old password error.
Scope FortiOS.
Solution

After attempting to restore the device with username and blank password, device shows error in config error log

 

System is rebooting...

System is starting...
System file integrity init check failed!
The config file may contain errors.
Please see details by the command 'diagnose debug config-error-log read'.


diagnose debug config-error-log read
>>> "set" "dhcp-relay-vrf-select" "4294967295" @ 503:global.system.interface.ha:value parse error (error -61)

>>> "set" "old-password" "ENC" @ 3607:global.system.admin.admin:failed command (error -160)
>>> "set" "old-password" "ENC" @ 4172:global.system.admin.vdom_admin:failed command (error -160)
>>> "set" "old-password" "ENC" @ 4214:global.system.admin.read:failed command (error -160)
>>> "set" "old-password" "ENC" @ 4256:global.system.admin.write:failed command (error -160)
>>> "set" "old-password" "ENC" @ 4298:global.system.admin.admin2:failed command (error -160)
>>> "set" "old-password" "ENC" @ 4340:global.system.admin.test1:failed command (error -160)

>>> "set" "vrf-select" "-1" @ 25275:root.web-proxy.explicit:value parse error (error -651)
>>> "set" "vrf-select" "-1" @ 32530:vdom1.web-proxy.explicit:value parse error (error -651)
>>> "set" "acct-interim-interval" "0" @ 32821:vdom1.user.radius.radius1:value parse error (error -61)
>>> "set" "source-ip-interface" "" @ 32827:vdom1.user.radius.radius1:value parse error (error -3)
>>> "set" "tertiary-server" "" @ 32847:vdom1.user.radius.radius1:value parse error (error -257)

 

This is expected behavior, and the error does not have any impact on device performance.