Procedure With Password Recovery Enabled - Cisco WS-C2960-24LC-S Software Configuration Manual

Recovering from a Lost or Forgotten Password
Several lines of information about the software appear with instructions, informing you if the password
recovery procedure has been disabled or not.
•
•
After recovering the password, reload the switch:
Step 5
Switch> reload
Proceed with reload? [confirm] y

Procedure with Password Recovery Enabled

If the password-recovery mechanism is enabled, this message appears:
The system has been interrupted prior to initializing the flash file system. The following
commands will initialize the flash file system, and finish loading the operating system
software:
flash_init
load_helper
boot
Initialize the flash file system:
Step 1
switch: flash_init
If you had set the console port speed to anything other than 9600, it has been reset to that particular
Step 2
speed. Change the emulation software line speed to match that of the switch console port.
Load any helper files:
Step 3
switch: load_helper
Display the contents of flash memory:
Step 4
switch: dir flash:
The switch file system appears:
Directory of flash:
13
11
18
16128000 bytes total (10003456 bytes free)
Rename the configuration file to config.text.old.
Step 5
This file contains the password definition.
Catalyst 2960 Switch Software Configuration Guide
32-4
If you see a message that begins with this:
The system has been interrupted prior to initializing the flash file system. The
following commands will initialize the flash file system
go to the "Procedure with Password Recovery Enabled" section on page
If you see a message that begins with this:
The password-recovery mechanism has been triggered, but is currently disabled.
go to the "Procedure with Password Recovery Disabled" section on page
drwx 192 Mar 01 1993 22:30:48
-rwx 5825 Mar 01 1993 22:31:59
-rwx 720 Mar 01 1993 02:21:30
Chapter 32
32-4, and follow the steps.
32-6, and follow the steps.
c2960-lanbase-mz.122-25.FX
config.text
vlan.dat
Troubleshooting
OL-8603-04