Resetting the password – Cisco 1751 User Manual
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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
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
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
in the
“Changing the Configuration Register”
section
earlier in this chapter.
Step 4
Press Ctrl-Z to exit configuration mode.