Recovering Passwords on a Cisco Router
Password recovery is a fairly frequently used procedure for administrators and engineers. Even though we usually stack our passwords in some word, excel or text file, it’s very easy to forget to update them when changes occur. The end result is you find yourself locked out of the device, wondering what on earth could be the password.
Accessing a Cisco router requires certain privileges. Depending on the router’s configuration, you might be required to firstly log into the router and then enter the popular ‘enable’ password to elevate your access to privileged mode, from where you can issue configuration commands.
This article will show you how you can gain full administrator access to a Cisco router, bypassing all security passwords. The password recovery process, however, can be rendered useless if the administrator has previously configured the router not to allow this process to take place. In this case, the router will warn the user and, if he proceeds, all configuration will be erased, so there will be nothing to recover! (more…)











