How to recover a Cisco device password

Last Updated on Saturday, 14 January 2012 01:18 Written by A.Jesin Saturday, 14 January 2012 01:18

Even if you forget your Cisco device (read router or switch) password you can recover it by following the steps outlined in this article. This includes enable passwords, secret passwords, telnet, SSH and console passwords. This process involves changing the configuration register of your Cisco device so that it ignores the NVRAM contents and loads the default configuration. For this process you have to get into the ROM monitor mode so you need to have serial console access to the Cisco switch/router. Read More…