Recovering From Forgotten Passwords - HP procurve 8100fl series Management And Configuration Manual

Security Configuration
Configuring Passwords
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2. Enter the following command to configure a password to the line that you
have specified:
ProCurve(config-line)#password <password>
By default the password you enter will be encrypted to prevent it from
being displayed in the configuration file output.
For example:
To create an encrypted password called "mysecretpassword" enter;
ProCurve(config-line)#password mysecretpassword
When you enter show running-config, this will appear as a line in the
running configuration as follows:
password 5 $1$ZyK.$8NHx2DJBsiGQyhTBmUakz1
where 5 indicates that the password is encrypted as an MD5 hash.
To allow passwords to be displayed in an unencrypted format, enter 0
before you enter the password.
For example:
To create a clear text password called "mypassword" enter;
ProCurve(config)#enable secret 0 mypassword
When you save this setting, it will appear as a line in the running
configuration as follows:
enable secret 0 mypassword
where 0 indicates that the password is not encrypted.
By default all passwords are encrypted, meaning that they will not display
in readable text in the configuration files. To specify an unencrypted
password, you must enter a 0 before entering the password text.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to assign a line-level password to each terminal line
that you have configured on the switch.

Recovering from Forgotten Passwords

To recover from a lost password, you can reboot the switch, bypass startup
configuration processing, and then reset the password from Boot mode in the
CLI. To do so, follow the steps below: