[15456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Password recovery-HELP!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Bool)
Mon Feb 23 11:48:15 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:06:31 +0000 (GMT)
From: Adrian Bool <aid@u.net.uk>
To: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>
cc: inet-access@earth.com, 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.
That is not a real break 0 more of an 'interupt'. I've not useminicomm -
but on teh PC comm software i use areal break is sent by Alt-B...
aid