Password Recovery on a Cisco 5580

 Steps to reset a password on a Cisco ASA 5580

• Boot the system and press escape as the system loads
• At ROMMON set confreg to 0x41 - >confreg 0x41
• then reload >boot
• When prompted type 'No' to by pass the auto configuration steps.
• Once at the command prompt copy the start-up config to running config:

           #conf t

          (config)#copy start run

• Next change the password to on of your choice:

         (config)#password [password]

         (config)#enable password [password]

• Add a user account with priv 15 access:

         (config)#username Trevor password [password] priv 15

• Change the configuration register back to the correct one:

         (config)#config-register 0x1

• Finally write this and then reload:

          #wr mem

         #reload

•  Test and you should be good.