Posts tagged Password
Disable Password Recovery
Aug 26th
There are times when you may want to disable password recovery (for example if someone is working in high secure environment).
Use the following command to disable password recovery
Router(config)#no service password-recovery
WARNING:
Executing this command will disable password recovery mechanism.
Do not execute this command without another plan for
password recovery.
Are you sure you want to continue? [yes/no]: yes
Router(config)#
Cisco Router Password Recovery
Aug 24th
There are times when you need to recover Cisco Router password. This tutorial shows how to do it in few simple and detailed steps. Depending on the router model, the configuration might be slightly different, but the concept remains same (check Summarized Steps)
Although it is possible to bypass router password feature, but it is not possible to recover encrypted passwords. Plain text passwords can be viewed from saved configuration but the encrypted passwords must be changed to a new password.
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