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Cisco 1750 Router Hardware Installation Guide
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Recovering a Lost Password
Step 7 Enter the enable command to enter privileged EXEC mode. Configuration
changes can be made only in this mode.
Router> enable
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.