{"id":941,"date":"2019-04-29T12:57:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T02:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2019-05-01T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T00:31:49","slug":"password-recovery-for-cisco-catalyst-switches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/password-recovery-for-cisco-catalyst-switches\/","title":{"rendered":"Password Recovery for Cisco Catalyst Switches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steps to reset password for Cisco Catalyst Switches:<\/p>\n<p>1. Connect PC with console cable<br \/>\n2. Unplug the power cable to the switch<br \/>\n3. Reconnect the power to the switch. Press and hold the <strong>Mode<\/strong> button while System LED is flashing green. After System LED turns amber and then solid green, release the <strong>Mode<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>If process followed correctly, the following message should be displayed:<\/p>\n<pre><code>flash_init\r\nload_helper\r\nboot<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>4.Enter these commands into the switch<\/p>\n<pre><code>Switch: flash_init\r\nSwitch: load_helper\r\nSwitch: dir flash:\r\nSwitch: rename flash:config.text flash:config.text.old\r\nSwitch: boot<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>5. Once the switch boot, answer <strong>NO<\/strong> to \u201cWould you like to enter initial\/system configuration dialog? [yes\/no]:<\/p>\n<p>6. Get into the privilege prompt<br \/>\n<code>Switch> enable<\/p>\n<p>7. Get into global configuration<br \/>\n<code>Switch# conf t<br \/>\nSwitch(config)# enable secret y0urPa$$word<br \/>\nOr,<br \/>\nSwitch(config)# username admin privilege 15 secret y0urPa$$word<\/code><\/p>\n<p>8. Save config<br \/>\n<code>Switch(config)# exit<br \/>\nSwitch# copy run start<br \/>\nSwitch# reload<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steps to reset password for Cisco Catalyst Switches: 1. Connect PC with console cable 2. Unplug the power cable to the switch 3. Reconnect the power to the switch. Press and hold the Mode button while System LED is flashing green. After System LED turns amber and then solid green, release the Mode button. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,32],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-cisco","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kng.tech\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}