Password Recovery

triplebenc

Hey all, I recently bought and recieved a cisco series 2500 router that I purchased off ebay. I hooked it up w/ my console cable and powered it up and ran it through hyperterminal. My problem is that you need a console password to get into user mode. So I was just curious to what procedure i would take in order to retrieve the password or change it. I was taught that you need to config-register to 0X2142 but there's no place to do that. So, any feedback would be awesome. Thanks!

wildfire

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/474/pswdrec_2500.html

triplebenc

Thanks for the link, it's just I couldnt find out how to retrieve the console password. I understand how to get the enable password because i'd have to change the config-register. But not being able to be on the console I can't enter anything but a password.


cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, California 95134-1706



Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-I-L), Version 12.1(13), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3)
Copyright (c) 1986-2002 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 31-Jan-02 05:34 by kellythw
Image text-base: 0x03841D18, data-base: 0x00001000

cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision N) with 14336K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 21878909, with hardware revision 00000000
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
8192K bytes of processor board System flash partition 1 (Read/Write)
8192K bytes of processor board System flash partition 2 (Read ONLY)

Warning: flash:1:c2500-i-l.121-12b.bin does not exist. Command retained.

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Press RETURN to get started!


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This is a Sprint Managed Internetwork Device
Unauthorized access is prohibited
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FPD: fpd-09-br-cac-riv-1




User Access Verification

Password:

triplebenc

Nevermind, I figured it out. Thanks tho!

zom

mind to share it out? ^^

triplebenc

Yeah, i missed that part on the website that was provided to me about connecting to the router the first time I went through. But what I did was found the break sequence (ctrl-break) and then pretty much followed the instructions, changing the register to 0x2142 and looking at the running-config.