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Cisco 1751 Router Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 3
Troubleshooting
Recovering a Lost Password
The prompt changes to the privileged EXEC prompt:
Router#
Step 8
Enter the
show startup-config
command to display an enable password in the
configuration file:
Router#
show startup-config
Step 9
Enter the
copy startup-config running-config
command to return to your startup
configuration:
Router#
copy startup-config running-config
If you are recovering an enable password, skip the following
“Resetting the
Password”
section, and complete the password recovery process by performing
the steps in the next section, “
Resetting the Configuration Register Value
.”
If you are recovering an enable secret password, you will not see the display in
the
show startup-config
command output. Complete the password recovery
process by performing the steps in the following
“Resetting the Password”
section.
Resetting the Password
Follow these steps to reset the password:
Step 1
Enter the
configure terminal
command to enter configuration mode:
Router#
configure terminal
Step 2
Enter the
enable secret
command to reset the enable secret password in the
router:
Router(config)#
enable secret <
gobbledegook
>
Step 3
Enter the
config-register
command and the original configuration register value
that you recorded in
Step 5
in the
“Changing the Configuration Register”
section
earlier in this chapter.
Step 4
Press
Ctrl-Z
to exit configuration mode.