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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.