After asking a few other engineers who work more on our routers I'm almost positive there is NO WAY to disable password recovery for somebody who has physical access and local console access to a cisco router.
-Tim -----Original Message----- From: DeGennaro, Gregory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:15 PM To: 'matt'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Locking Cisco Router Dave, I may be wrong on this because I have not heard nor research it at Cisco. From what I know, it is not possible to totally lock a router down without password recovery (ctrl-break)unless you implement physical security. However, remember that no can password recover over the Internet but need direct access to the router. Why would you want to stop it because if you do and you forget your password or whatever, it may be more frustrating and costly than implementing physical security. I did a "quick" search and nothing for routers. Greg -----Original Message----- From: matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 7:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Locking Cisco Router Why would you want to do that? Is it company owned or privately owned? If company owned, then if you quit or get fired, only you know the password to the router itself else the next expert will have to reconfigure the router changing the bits so that the password no longer exists creating time... Now if privately owned, as long as the password is never mentioned to anyone, there isn't any problems. And what version are you with? 250*, higher? Lower? from where I can see, your answer is no but I could be wrong... -----Original Message----- From: David Lubowa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 9:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Locking Cisco Router is it possible to lock a cisco router to a point that even a password recovery cant work to enter the router. cheers David Ziggy Lubowa Network Engineer One2net (U) web: www.one2net.co.ug Tel: +256 41 345466
