[nsp] Cisco 3660 Password Recovery

[Richard Gallagher]

Clayton,

If you really have "no service password-recovery" set then you are not going
to be able to get the original config back, there is no way. The only option
you have it to set the router back to factory defults. Follow the procedure
below:


1. Boot the system
2. Wait until after the system decompresses the IOS image:
          
Self decompressing the image :
################################################]
         
3. Hit break within five seconds.
4. The 3600 will ask if you want to reset the router to the factory default
configuration:
                 
PASSWORD RECOVERY IS DISABLED.
Do you want to reset the router to factory default
configuration and proceed [y/n] ? y
Reset router configuration to factory default.

HTH,

Rich

Clayton Zekelman wrote:
> 
> We have a 3660 router that we pulled from one of our POP's and were about to redeploy it, but
> we ran into a nasty problem.
> 
> The unit isn't accepting the password we have on record for it, and to top it all off, somehow the "no service password-recovery" option got set.  I have no idea how this happened.
> 
> I tried a procedure I found on the web which showed how to bypass this setting at a specific phase of the boot cycle, but it didn't work on our router.  The example was shown with 12.0.7(T) on a C2600.  I'm going to try to put a 12.0.7(T) image for the 3660 on a flash card, and force a boot from it by removing the on board flash.  Am I heading in the wrong direction?
> 
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