Configuring Console Connection

mzinz

I ran into an issue today while configuring a console connection and thought I would ask for a little help.

If I configure my console connection with a password, then tell it to use 'login local', what does that mean exactly?
I thought login local meant that it was supposed to accept a local username/password on the device - so what is the point of having a password also?

Long story short, I created a username/pass, then put a password on line con 0, then told it to use login local.

I'm now locked out!

What did I do wrong?

nice343

when you type login local under the console you shouldn't use the password command under the console.

The router will authenticate you with the local database. On the hand if you type the password under the console, my guess is the login local command will take precedence over the password command.