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Resetting the password – Cisco 1751 User Manual

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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.