Sometimes an administrator will find that he has inherited the job of caring for a network's switch from someone else. That past employee had the passwords to the switch buried somewhere in his head and now he is nowhere to be found. This means that you need to recover the password to the switch. A lost password on the Cisco Catalyst 5000 switch can be recovered using the following steps:
If you are using a Supervisor III or IV Engine, the password recovery steps are as follows :
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