Password Recovery Procedure

Password Recovery Procedure

If you forget or lose the passwords for the FWSM application partition, you can reset the password to default values from the Maintenance Partition. Clearing the password with the following command from the Maintenance partition will reset the Telnet password to cisco and will clear the enable password:

guest@localhost# clear passwd cf:partition_number>

Here partition_number refers to the number of the application partition whose password has to be reset. The following example shows the resetting of the password for the application partition in slot 4.

guest@localhost# clear passwd cf:4
Do you wish to erase the passwords? [yn] y
The following lines will be removed from the configuration:
      enable password 8Ry2YjIyt7RRXU24 encrypted
      passwd 2KFQnbNIdI.2KYOU encrypted
Do you want to remove the commands listed above from the configuration? [yn] y
Passwords and aaa commands have been erased.
guest@localhost#