My god, I actually managed to find it! Yay internet! For those who may be looking for help on password recovery for the 3850 switch in the future, I'll post what I found. I ended up resetting the switch because, well, easier. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3850/hardware/quick/guide/cat3850_gsg.html#wp46478 - reset procedures found here http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3850/software/release/3.2_0_se/system_management/configuration_guide/b_sm_32se_3850_cg_chapter_010001.html#concept_6E610BCFF5174E498454F09CB6489799 -this has a password recovery procedure that... sort of worked for me (but not completely, thus my choosing to reset rather than fiddle with it). Hope that's helpful to someone else down the line! -Jen
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I did. Flash was already initialized. I get the same error when I do a rename flash:nvram_config flash:nvram_config.old, as well. Read only file system. When I do a ?, the command list it gives me is this: switch: ? ? -- Present list of available commands arp -- Show arp table or arp-resolve an address boot -- Load and boot an executable image cat -- Concatenate (type) file(s) copy -- Copy a file delete -- Delete file(s) dir -- List files in directories emergency-install -- Initiate Disaster Recovery flash_init -- Initialize filesystem(s) format -- Format a filesystem fsck -- Check filesystem consistency help -- Present list of available commands mgmt_init -- initialize management port mkdir -- Create dir(s) more -- Concatenate (display) file(s) ping -- Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a network host rename -- Rename a file reset -- Reset the system rmdir -- Delete empty dir(s) set -- Set or display environment variables set_bs -- Set attributes on a boot sector filesystem set_param -- Set system parameters in flash type -- Concatenate (type) file(s) unset -- Unset one or more environment variables version -- Display boot loader version Any thoughts?
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Was worth a shot... unfortunately, it won't let me copy/rename that file as it's read only, apparently. The permissions don't look like that... but when I do this, I get the following error: switch: copy flash:nvram_config flash:nvram_config.old flash:nvram_config.old: read only file system Assuming I did that right to begin with (did I mention I'm pretty new to all of this? Heh.), do you know of any way I can work around that and try to do it anyway?
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I've noticed! *lol* What I've found about resetting passwords seems to assume you're in priveledged EXEC already - which would be part of the problem, really. I can do a dir flash:. This is what I get: 54209 drwx 4096 . 2 drwx 4096 .. 54210 -rw- 2097152 nvram_config 54211 -rw- 74410468 cat3k_caa-base.SPA.03.02.00SE.pkg 54212 -rw- 2773680 cat3k_caa-drivers.SPA.03.02.00.SE.pkg 54213 -rw- 32478044 cat3k_caa-infra.SPA.03.02.00SE.pkg 54214 -rw- 30393116 cat3k_caa-iosd-universalk9.SPA.150-1.EX.pkg 54215 -rw- 18313952 cat3k_caa-platform.SPA.03.02.00.SE.pkg 54216 -rw- 63402700 cat3k_caa-wcm.SPA.10.0.100.0.pkg 54217 -rw- 1218 packages.conf 54218 -rw- 556 vlan.dat 54219 -rw- 57 express_setup.debug Not sure if that helps at all.
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I have... there doesn't appear to be a "config.text" file in the flash: directory, and it's giving me an unknown cmd error on load_helper.
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Hi, Forgive the newbie question, but I'm trying to do password recovery on a Catalyst 3850 switch, and I can't figure out what I have to actually *do*. I've read the section in this: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3850/software/release/3.2_0_se/security/configuration_guide/b_sec_1501_3850_cg_chapter_011.html#concept_8DD2D3858A774C2798D30927F5761C66 where it says that I need to have physical access to the switch (I do), and that I reset the password if I issue a break command and interrupt the boot procedure. I've tried to do that... it gives me the "switch:" prompt, so I think I've interrupted the boot procedure successfully, but, what do I do next? I've successfully done recoveries on Catalyst 2950s, 3550s & 3560s, but the procedure for this one, if I'm reading the link above right, sounds like it's completely different. There's no config on this switch, at least, nothing that can't be wiped if it needs to be. Thanks for the help! -Jen
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