Service Password-Recovery - Cisco Catalyst 3030 Command Reference Manual
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service password-recovery
service password-recovery
Use the service password-recovery global configuration command to enable the password-recovery
mechanism (the default). This mechanism allows an end user with physical access to the switch to
interrupt the boot process while the switch is powering up and to assign a new password. Use the no form
of this command to disable part of the password-recovery functionality. When the password-recovery
mechanism is disabled, interrupting the boot process is allowed only if the user agrees to set the system
back to the default configuration.
Syntax Description
This command has no arguments or keywords.
Defaults
The password-recovery mechanism is enabled.
Command Modes
Global configuration
Command History
Release
12.2(25)SEE
Usage Guidelines
As a system administrator, you can use the no service password-recovery command to disable some of
the functionality of the password recovery feature by allowing an end user to reset a password only by
agreeing to return to the default configuration.
To use the password-recovery procedure, a user with physical access to the switch restarts the switch and
then enters the break key to interrupt the boot sequence.
The break key character is different for each operating system.
Note
On a SUN work station running UNIX, Ctrl-C is the break key.
On a PC running Hyperterminal on Windows XP or 2000, Ctrl-Break is the break key.
Cisco TAC has tabulated break keys for most common operating systems and an alternative break key
sequence for those terminal emulators that do not support the break keys. See
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/701/61.html#how-to for that list.
For instructions on how to use the break key to enter the boot loader mode, see the software configuration
guide for this release.
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