[15454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Password recovery-HELP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Beck)
Mon Feb 23 11:47:59 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:12:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Aaron Beck <aaronb@mpl.net>
To: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980220180029.10383A-100000@emancholl.pair.com>
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Adam Rothschild wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to recover the enable pw on a 2501 with IOS 10.2
> (bootstrap: 5.2(5) release) and I'm failing miserably.
>
> I boot the system up, and send it a break (i'm minicom; ctrl + 6 and ctrl
> + ^ work as a break on a cisco for me), yet it boots normally, rather than
> bringing me the ">" prompt.
minicom break is alt-f
cisco break is shift-6-x.. different things entirely
>
> If someone could pleaes contact me ASAP (private e-mail is best) I'd
> greatly appreciate it!
>
after you get to the magic > prompt:
o/r 0x41
i
make your changes, etc.
conf t
config-reg 0x2102 (or whatever)
reload
enjoy!
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