Password Recovery
Lesson 6: Password Recovery
Suppose that you are sitting at your desk and you try to Secure Shell (SSH) or telnet to a router. However, you cannot log in. Or, you can get into user mode but not into enable mode because you forgot the enable secret password. You want to recover, or at least reset the passwords, so you can get into the router and change the configuration. What can you do?
Cisco gives us a way to reset the passwords on a router when sitting beside the router. With access to the router console, and the ability to power the router off and back on, anyone can reset all the passwords on the router to new values.
The ...
Get Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-101 Official Cert Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
