Comments on: FREE VIDEO: How to Reset the Password on a Cisco Catalyst 2950 Switch

By: grant matthews

grant matthews — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:48:47 +0000

Thanks a million, Grant

By: Orlan

Orlan — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:49:06 +0000

Dear Davis,

I had perform password recovry for cisco 2950 swich, I’d followed the steps after the boot command, I am expecting to setup mode and proceed for changing the enable secret but the scenario was not what Im expecting, but the switch proceed to interface checking and after wards and stops checking interfaces,then i striked enter it proceeds or asking PASSWORD for login.
Then as i descover the flash dir: there is a file config.text and config.old, so i presumed that the config.old file is conflecting the config.text file, and i attemp to delete the config.old file, But i cant.

hoping you can share to me my problem,
thanks and God bless you and your family.

orlan

By: laffir

laffir — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:54:42 +0000

i used your step of recovering password in 2950 switch ,but still couldn’t recover password .in addition to the config.text file in the flash i have a file called private-config.txt

By: George Shawky

George Shawky — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:57:16 +0000

Am very thankful for that vedio it is a helpfull one for me,
thanks again .

By: irfann khan

irfann khan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:23:02 +0000

dear sir,

my name is irfan khani want to ask a how to install 1800 series router can you help me please tell me step by step i will heigly oblige to you

thanks

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:44:06 +0000

Dear David Davis

I did the same way you showed but i got an error:

switch: dir flash
unable to stat flash/: permission denied
switch:

Pls help

By: demha

demha — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:37:14 +0000

Hay man its fantastic you have spen your valuable time to teach this trick thank you and may allah help you and guid you in right path

By: David Davis - HappyRouter.com Site Manager

David Davis - HappyRouter.com Site Manager — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:51:51 +0000

Hi S Khan,
MD5 passwords (Cisco type 5) passwords can be decrypted with dictionary or brute force attacks. While this isn’t “easy” like it is with type 7 passwords, it can still be done. To do it, just google “md5 password cracker” and you will find a number of applications to help you out.
Thus, the video author isn’t incorrrect.
However, in this case, as you have access to the switch console, it is easiest to just CHANGE the password instead of decrypting it.
Thanks for commenting!
-David D, HappyRouter.com

By: S Khan

S Khan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:46:51 +0000

At 9:04 video time, the admin is Incorrect, when he said, that the enable password could be decoded by programs… The cisco enable password is MD5, and it cannot be decoded or de-hashed “YET”.
Thanks.

By: vid

vid — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:43:04 +0000

Thanks for the great tips.