Description
This article describes password recovery for AWS FortiGate.
Solution
The FortiGate VM deployed in AWS EC2 will not have console access.
Hence, it is not possible to use the maintainer account to reset the password.
If the default password hasn't been changed, the password will be the EC2 instance ID.
If the default password has been changed and somehow lost, it won't be possible to recover it.
The only solution is to redeploy the instance. Hence, it is important to keep the password safe.
Only below connections are available:
No console access is available.
This article describes password recovery for AWS FortiGate.
Solution
The FortiGate VM deployed in AWS EC2 will not have console access.
Hence, it is not possible to use the maintainer account to reset the password.
If the default password hasn't been changed, the password will be the EC2 instance ID.
If the default password has been changed and somehow lost, it won't be possible to recover it.
The only solution is to redeploy the instance. Hence, it is important to keep the password safe.
Only below connections are available:
No console access is available.
