Re: error in authentication

From: Rick Mur (rickmur@me.com)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2008 - 16:58:35 ART


You screwed up the authentication for enabled mode :-)
Because you only specified the tacacs+ way of authenticating on the
enable command it will never try something else. So because their is
no tacacs+ server it will never allow you to type the password.

The only solution is that I hope you didn't save your config so you
can powercycle it. Else you'll have to do a password recovery.
To not have this problem the next time, you could specify a enable
password or enable secret and type:

aaa authentication default group tacacs+ enable

When the tacacs server is not available it will automatically fall
back to the enable password or secret.

Rick

On 26 aug 2008, at 12:33, Jack Tsai wrote:

> After messing up my router with the aaa commands, now I get this:
> 2811-5>en
> % Error in authentication.
>
> Console or vty connection gave me the same error.
>
> The last modification was like this:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> aaa new-model
> !
> !
> aaa group server tacacs+ rrr
> server 1.1.1.1
> !
> aaa authentication enable default group rrr group tacacs+
> !
> aaa session-id common
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> where, 1.1.1.1 does not exist. There is no route to that address.
>
>
> Any idea what caused the problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
>
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