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Cisco 1700 Router Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 3 Troubleshooting
Press RETURN to get started!
Step 6 Press Return. The following prompt appears:
Router>
Step 7 Enter the enable command to enter privileged EXEC
mode. Configuration changes can be made only in this
mode:
Router> enable
The prompt changes to the privileged EXEC prompt:
Router#
Step 8 Enter the show startup-config command to display an
enable password in the configuration file:
Router# show startup-config
If you are recovering an enable password, skip the
following “Reset the Password” section and complete
the password recovery process by performing the steps
in the next section, “Reset the Configuration Register
Value.”
If you are recovering an enable secret password, it is not
displayed in the show startup-config command output.
Complete the password recovery process by performing
the steps in the following “Reset the Password” section.
Reset the Password
Step 1 Enter the configure terminal command to enter
configuration mode:
Router# configure terminal
Step 2 Enter the enable secret command to reset the enable
secret password in the router:
Router(config)# enable secret gobbledegook