Hi,
I have an old Cisco 803 router with an unknown password. I tried the cisco password recovery with no effect.
Strangely, I do not get the bootprompt the cisco docs show.
Cisco doc says : Type set ios-conf = 142 at the boot# prompt. My prompt is : boot>
The result I get is : boot> set ios-conf = 142 set: failed, "command not found"
What could be wrong ? Ideas greatly appreciated....
Cas Renooij
I should add that trying to change the ios-conf settings produce an error: boot> set ios-conf=0x142 ios-conf: failed, "permission denied"
I have an 801 here.
The convention with cisco prompts is that the last character in the prompt indicates the permissions that you have at the time.
# indicated read/write - or "enabled"
try issuing the command "enable"
e.g.
boot# boot# dis boot> set ios-conf=0x142 ios-conf: failed, "permission denied" boot> en boot# set ios-conf=0x142 boot#
Mine comes up "enabled" so maybe you are still in trouble.
I tried with an enable password and enable secret set and it still works without requiring a password.
Good luck.
Also:
The "comand not found" probably resulted from an extra space.
type commands EXACTLY as shown.
I only used one space.
set[space]io........
I guess i am still in trouble... typing enable presents me a password prompt and that is just what I want to reset.
Thanks anyway... Cas...
OH well...
There is some cisco kit with some IOS which allows password recovery to be disabled. I don't know anything about it however maybe this is what you have.
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