How to Reset Cisco Router Password?
Here is the step by step procedure to reset cisco router and switch
password
Follow these simple steps to complete the process of recovering your
Cisco Router password.
1. First, you should try to shut down the Cisco Router.
2. Then try to remove the compact flash which is ON the rear of your
router. Then switch ON the router.
3. Once your router is on bootstrap or “(Rommon) mode”, reinsert the
compact flash.
4. Next, write config or “confreg 0x2142” at the “bootstrap 1>” prompt
to boot from Flash. This step detours the startup configuration where the
passwords are stored. Mainly, “0x2102” is the factory-default configuration
register value.
5. Type reset at the prompt. Then your router reboots but ignores the
saved configuration.
6. Next, press “Ctrl-C” to bounce the original setup process.
7. Now, you need to type enable at the “Router>” prompt, so you’re
in enable mode and should see the “Router#” prompt.
8. Then, type configures “memory startup-config running-config” to
copy the nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) into memory.
9. Next, you have to running-config command parades the configuration
of your router. The shutdown command looks under all interfaces that are
presently shut down. Furthermore, the passwords (Enable Secret, Enable
Password, VTY, & Console Passwords) are in either an unencrypted or
encrypted format. You can recycle unencrypted passwords. Then you should change
unencrypted passwords to a new password.
10. Then you have to type configure terminal here. The “hostname (config)
#” prompt looks.
11. Now, type enables a secret password to quickly change the
password.
12. Type “config-register”, where it’s either the value you recorded
in step 2 or 0x2102.
13. Now, press “Ctrl-Z “to authority the configuration mode, the
hostname# prompt looks.
14. Finally, type memory to running “config startup-config” to
changes.
In this way, you can easily Reset Cisco Router Password.
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