Telnet Password

[ptaylor]

I wish my first question here was a little more interesting (if not less embarrasing) but I have a 515E and it is right out of the box. I have configured a 506E before but did it all from Telneting. I used the Startup Wizard this time to set up the basics. I now want to go in via telnet from a DOS prompt (Windows). I never set a telnet password and yet I cannot set one now because it keeps telling me in the PDM when I try to set a password that

"The old telnet passwrod does not match the current telnet password on the Pix. Please try again"

I never gave it a password in the first place. I have tryed Nothing and the enable password but no go.

Is there a default password ? What is required to reset this password.

Thanks

Pat

[Patrick Iseli · Accepted solution]

Have you tryed with an empty password, just press ENTER. There is no default password, you have to set one. Do you have tryed to connect on the console (serial) port.

Set a password =

passwd yourpassword

enable password yourpassword

See this DOC to do a password recovery:

Password Recovery and AAA Configuration Recovery Procedure for the PIX

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_password_recovery09186a008009478b.shtml

sincerely

Patrick

[ptaylor]

Thanks Patrick

I was looking through that document and found somewhere the line saying:

The default Telnet password after this process is "cisco."

I tried it and voila ! Very weird. I did not initially set a password for Telnet and I was about to try the password recovery utility but thankfully it worked.