It's behaving how it would if you hit Enter twice after entering your username, leaving the password field blank. Is the console cable (and possibly a USB-to-serial adapter) you're using working fine to console into other routers?
-----Original Message----- From: Lelio Fulgenzi [mailto:le...@uoguelph.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 3:43 PM To: voyp list, cisco-voip (cisco-voip@puck.nether.net) <cisco-voip@puck.nether.net> Subject: [cisco-voip] ios console access asking for old password Anyone seen anything like this? I'm preparing for ios upgrades and want to monitor via the console port. I've compared this to another router and the relevant settings are the same. Could this be something on the far end TACACS+ server causing me issues? ----- username: lelio password: Enter old password: Enter new password: Enter new password confirmation: % Authentication failed ------ ^^^ Not working working aaa authentication login default group tacacs+ enable aaa authentication login default group tacacs+ enable aaa authentication login virt-users group tacacs+ enable aaa authentication login virt-users group tacacs+ enable aaa authentication login console group tacacs+ enable aaa authentication login console group tacacs+ enable aaa accounting exec default aaa accounting exec default action-type start-stop action-type start-stop group tacacs+ group tacacs+ ! ! aaa accounting commands 8 default aaa accounting commands 8 default action-type start-stop action-type start-stop group tacacs+ group tacacs+ ! ! aaa accounting commands 15 default aaa accounting commands 15 default action-type start-stop action-type start-stop group tacacs+ group tacacs+ ! <snip> ! line con 0 line con 0 session-timeout 60 output session-timeout 60 output exec-timeout 30 0 exec-timeout 30 0 login authentication console login authentication console transport preferred none transport preferred none ! tacacs-server host a.b.c.6 tacacs-server host a.b.c.6 tacacs-server host a.b.c.7 tacacs-server host a.b.c.7 tacacs-server directed-request tacacs-server directed-request tacacs-server key mykey tacacs-server key mykey ! ^^^ --- Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. Senior Analyst, Network Infrastructure Computing and Communications Services (CCS) University of Guelph 519-824-4120 Ext 56354 le...@uoguelph.ca www.uoguelph.ca/ccs Room 037, Animal Science and Nutrition Building Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1 _______________________________________________ cisco-voip mailing list cisco-voip@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
