From: kym blair (kymblair@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 21:54:05 GMT-3
>From: "Charles Huang" <CharlesNY2000@Yahoo.Com>
>Reply-To: "Charles Huang" <CharlesNY2000@Yahoo.Com>
>To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: Password recovery on a password recovery disabled router
>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:25:44 -0500
>
>Does anybody know how to break a password with password recovery disabled
>router ?
Charles,
Check the archives; that was explained (with complete example from a 2620) a
few weeks ago. Basically, the answer was:
1) do cold boot, don't "break" yet, see message "PASSWORD RECOVERY
FUNCTIONALITY IS DISABLED, still don't "break" yet, see image decompressing,
still don't "break" yet, see Cisco IOS Version ... copyright ... compiled
Tue 21-Mar-01 ... Image text-base: 0x80008088 ...
2) BREAK NOW
3) see:
PASSWORD RECOVERY IS DISABLED.
Do you want to reset the router to factory default config [y/n] YES
(enter YES)
4) router boots but acts like you just entered the "no service
password-recovery" command, and it asks:
Are you sure you want to continue? [yes/no] NO
(enter NO)
5) Lets you into privileged mode and the startup-config is still okay.
I have not tested this yet, but the discussion was thorough; the guy knew
what he was talking about. Good luck.
Kym
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