Any best practice for password recovery with Stacked C3750x

[kay.kang]

Hi,

We've lost password for console access to stacked C3750x switch(4 switches stacked).

Can anyone recommed me best practice(with steps) for password recovery in this case?

[marce1000]

 -  There won't be any best practice , just the cisco procedure for that ; use search engine(s) with reference words to find it, 

 M.

[Gopinath_Pigili]

Hello kay.kang ,

Please follow the link...You will find similar discussion...hope it will be helpful..

https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/switch-stack-password-recovery/td-p/4035801

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[paul driver]

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[kay.kang]

Thanks Paul,

To just confirm,

The process will cause breaking the stack, so I'll have to start configuring stacking after the password receovery?

[paul driver]

Hello

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@kay.kang wrote:
The process will cause breaking the stack, so I'll have to start configuring stacking after the password receovery?

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No it will not break the stack.
All you are doing is basically performing a password recovery on a single switch (the master switch) which happens to be part of a physical stack

However as the password is for the stack you'll need to powerdown the whole stack and perform the password recovery( but just on the master switch), once that is complete power up the other switches in the stack.

Just make sure you have a good copy of running-cfg beforehand,