Password recovery on Cisco 1941 - Command authorization failed

[D@1984]

I got a 1941 router and trying to do a password recovery.  I recycle the router and do a CTRL-Break on it, then I do a confreg 0x2142
Next, I do ENABLE
From there, I'm at the Privleged Mode and should be able to do copy start run and configure terminal, so I can clear out the enable password.  This is what happens.


R1#conf t
%authorization failed.

I tried other command but got the same message. any idea?

[Javier Morales]

This means that your startup config includes AAA configuration which requires to authorize the user before make changes.  The router may be have a tacacs or radius configured to centralize the user authentication.

The fastest way is get a copy of the startup configuration to your computer and manually remove any AAA reference.

Then copy/paste the configuration commands to the router.

Remember to enable the interfaces "no sh" and change the passwords on the configuration file.

[Leo Laohoo]

After rebooting with 0x2142, post the complete output to the command "sh version".