Dealing With Router Password Loss - H3C MSR 20-20 User Manual

Dealing with Router
Password Loss
User Password Loss
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CAUTION: Confirm the file to be deleted before deleting since the system does
not prompt you to confirm when deleting files.
Exit to the main menu
Exit to the main BootROM menu.
Do as follows when your BootROM password, user password or Super Password is
lost.
You cannot enter the system if you lose your user password. You can boot the
system by neglecting system configuration. Perform the following operations:
Step 1: Enter the main BootROM menu, and select <6> to boot by ignoring system
configuration:
The system prompts:
........
Flag Set Successfully.
The system prompts set success.
Step 2: When the main BootROM menu appears again, enter <a> to reboot the
system.
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system start booting......Version
Step 3: Set new password under the system view after rebooting.
[H3C]user-interface console 0
[H3C-ui-console0]authentication-mode password
[H3C-ui-console0]set authentication password simple 123456
This indicates that the password authentication is adopted at the console port and
the password is set to 123456 and stored in plain text.
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After reboot, the system runs with the initial default configuration. The original
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configuration files are stored in memory. To restore the original configurations,
you can use the display saved-configuration command to display them, and
then copy and execute them.
When storing the password in plain text, you can use the display
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current-configuration command to see the password in the current
configuration. If you use the set authentication password cipher 123456
command when setting the password, the password is encrypted and stored.
Step 4: Save the new configuration.
[H3C] save
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Execute the save command after modifying the user password to save the new
password.

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