How to stop password recovery By David Bombal
Saturday, March 06, 2010 11:08:11 PM
How do I disable Password Recovery? (Which version does it apply to?)
The command to stop password recovery is"no service password-recovery".
The "no service password-recovery" feature is a security enhancement that prevents anyone with console access from accessing the router configuration and clearing the password and gaining access to the router's configuration.
Please note that they will still be able to reset the router to factory defaults, but will not gain access to the configuration. It will also prevent anyone from changing the configuration register values and accessing NVRAM.
Normally when doing password recovery you are able to get into privileged mode and copy the startup config to running config