Password Recovery Procedures for Cisco Routers

Step	2500 Series Commands	1700/2600 Series Commands
Step 1: Boot the router and interrupt the boot sequence as soon as text appears on the screen.	Press >	Press rommon 1>
Step 2: Change the configuration register to ignore contents of NVRAM.	>o/r 0x2142	rommon 1>confreg 0x2142
	>	rommon 2>
Step 3: Reload the router.	>i	rommon 2>reset
Step 4: Enter privileged mode. (Do not enter setup mode.)	router>en	Router>en
	Router#	Router#
Step 5: Copy startup-config into running-config.	Router#copy start run	Router#copy start run
	...<output cut>...	...<output cut>...
	Denver#	Denver#
Step 6: Change the password.	Denver#config t	Denver#config t
	Denver(config)#enable secret new	Denver(config)#enable secret new
	Denver(config)#	Denver(config)#
Step 7: Reset configuration register back to default value.	Denver(config)#config-register 0x2102	#Denver(config)#config-register 0x2102
	Denver(config)#	Denver(config)#
Step 8: Save the configuration.	Denver(config)#exit	Denver(config)#exit
	Denver#copy run start	Denver#copy run start
	Denver#	Denver#
Step 9: Verify configuration register.	Denver#show version	Denver#show version
	...<output cut>...	...<output cut>...
	Configuration register is 0x2142 (will be 0x2102 at next reload)	Configuration register is 0x2142 (will be 0x2102 at next reload)
	Denver#	Denver#
Step 10: Reload the router.	Denver#reload	Denver#reload