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Chapter 5
Configuring the Management Interface and Security
Type rename "config.txt" "config2.txt" and press Enter.
Step 4
Renames the configuration file so that it will not be lost when the system is rebooted.
Type reboot and press Enter.
Step 5
Reboots the system to reset passwords. The default configuration is restored, in which all passwords are
Cisco. This will provide access to the system.
(The IP address configuration remains as it was last configured.)
Establish a Telnet session to the SCE platform and enable the admin authorization level.
Step 6
Use the default password (Cisco).
At the SCE# prompt type copy /system/config2.txt ftp://
Step 7
<user>:<ftp_password>@ip_address/<path>/config2.txt and press Enter.
Copies the file /system/config2.txt to the workstation using the SCE platform FTP client.
On the workstation, open the file. Look for the lines that start with enable password.
Step 8
If passwords are not encrypted, you will be able to see the passwords, and can simply take note of them.
If passwords are encrypted, do the following
Edit the file by removing the lines that begin with enable password.
a.
Save the file.
a.
At the SCE# prompt, type copy ftp:// <user>:<ftp_password>@ip_address/<path>/config2.txt
a.
/system/config2.txt and press Enter.
Copies the file from the workstation back to the SCE platform disk space using the SCE platform
FTP client.
At the SCE# prompt, type rename /system/config2.txt /system/config.txt and press Enter.
Step 9
Renames the configuration file on the SCE platform back to the original name config.txt.
At the SCE# prompt, type reload and press Enter.
Step 10
Reboots the SCE platform to restore the saved user configuration
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If passwords were not encrypted—the user-configured passwords that you viewed in the copied file
are restored, since the configuration file was not changed.
If passwords were encrypted—the default password Cisco remains, since the encrypted lines were
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removed from the configuration file before it was copied back to the SCE platform.
To block unauthorized users from connecting to the SCE platform using the default password, a new
password should be configured immediately for all levels for which such a password is required. The
configuration should be saved (use the CLI command copy running-config startup-config ) to make
the new passwords permanent.
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Managing Passwords
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