What to do when you forget your cisco LD password...

[dustin () spy net (Dustin Sallings)]

        If you're like me, you've got a lot of passwords to remember, and
sometimes, well, we forget.  There's good news, though!  For a limited time
only, you can enable on your cisco LocalDirector with the magic ^C password.

        I noticed this on a 1.6.3 LocalDirector where I mistyped the enable
password by mistake and hit ^C to start over, but I didn't have to, took me
right in, and let me make my configuration changes.  Later experimentation
showed that you don't even have to type in a partially invalid password, ^C
alone seems to do the trick in all cases we tried.

        This does *not* seem to work for logging in, only enabling (YMMV).

* Workaround:

        If you do, you probably shouldn't let people you don't trust with your
equipment on it in any way.

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