From: Colin Barber (Colin.Barber@telewest.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 17:54:41 GMT-3
CatOS switches are easy to recover passwords. Reboot the switch. As soon it
has booted, log in and enter enable mode. All the passwords are blank for
the first 30 seconds so just press ENTER on all the password prompts.
Then enter the set password command. Press ENTER three times - one is the
old password, second the new password and third is verification of new
password.
Do the same with the set enablepass command.
This all has to be done within the first 30 seconds. Once done all the
passwords are blank and you can now set them to whatever you wish with no
time constraints.
Colin
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Rinehart [mailto:jjrinehart@hotmail.com]
Sent: 05 June 2003 19:30
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Password Recovery on a Catalyst 5500
Ran into something interesting with the company I used to work for, they
have
a Cat 5500 that they need to do password recovery on but all the recovery
procedures on CCO ask for the old password. Any suggestions?
Joe
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