Recovering From Forgotten Passwords - HP ProCurve 8100fl Series Installation And Getting Started Manual

Getting Started With Switch Configuration
Setting Up Passwords
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3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to assign a line-level password to each terminal line

Recovering from Forgotten Passwords

If you forget your line-level passwords, you can log on using the console and
enter new passwords. Once you enter the new passwords, other users who
access these lines can use the new passwords. To make the changes
permanent, save the new passwords to the startup configuration.
If you forget your console or CLI-level password that allows you to log on to
the command line interface, you must reboot the switch and reset the
password from Boot mode in the CLI. To do so, follow the steps below:
1. If you have two Management Modules installed, pull the backup module
2. Connect to the serial console of the active Management Module, and then
3. Interrupt the normal bootup sequence—at the point where it says: "Press
3-8
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;
Switch 8100fl(config)#enable secret 0 mypassword
When you enter 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.
that you have configured on the switch.
out of its slot so that only one Management Module is active.
perform a power cycle to reboot the switch.
<Enter> to execute or <ESC> to abort"—by pressing the [
the spacebar to skip the countdown sequence).
This will put you into Boot mode—the prompt will change to PMON>.
] key (use
Esc