Password Recovery on a Catalyst 3750-E
Password recovery on a Catalyst 3750-E
- Press and hold the Mode button on the front of the system then connect the power
- Continue holding until the SYS LED blinks from green, to amber, to green, then turns solid green.
- Release Mode and you should have a prompt for – switch:
- Do – switch: flash_init
- Next do – switch: dir flash:
- Next do – switch: rename flash:config.text flash:config.old
- Next do – switch: boot
- Once the system reboots you can either save the blank config and work from a clean install #wr mem
- Or, recover the old config and reset the password:
#rename flash:config.old flash:config.text
- Then do – #copy flash:config.text system:running-config
- Change all the passwords and apply an appropriate user account:
(config)#enable secret [password]
(config)#username Trevor password [password]
(config)#line con 0
password [password]
login
(config)#line vty 0 4
password [password]
login
- Finally save the config and reload –
#wr mem
#reload