Then you can copy the startup config into the running config, and you can change the password. This means you’re in without needing a password. Just boot into ROMMON mode, change the configuration register value to 0x41 so that the ASA boots without loading the startup config. If you have physical access to the ASA, you can probably reset the password. Name of admin’s dog/cat/child/soccer team/favorite pornstar.
#Cisco asa 5505 activation key crack password
No screen lock password on your Blackberry AND you emailed naughty photos to yourself? Dude. That’s the main reason I have to nuke lost Blackberrys from the corporate BES. You never know, the sort of sensitive shit people email unencrypted to themselves. Might be in the old admin’s email archive. The ASA enable password might be the same as the domain administrator password. Many admins will use the same password in different systems. On a typical network, the documentation is all stored in the same place a file share, a local directory, a KeePass archive. Let’s hope it’s not on a Post-It note underneath the keyboard. Other lateral puzzle approaches include: looking for other places that the password may have been stored. Can you ask the poster what their password is? If their encrypted password is the same value as your mystery password, they are using that same password. Just paste the encrypted password into Google and see if anyone has posted their own config in some Google-indexed forum somewhere. You might have better luck with a bit of lateral thinking. The time required to brute force a complex password will depend on the character set used in the password, the length of the password, and the speed of the computer that is running Cain & Abel. You can try to brute force it with John the Ripper, or Cain and Abel, or some precomputed rainbow table. If you have the password in encrypted format, you might luck out if it is a commonly-used value such as 8Ry2YjIyt7RRXU24 (password is blank) or 2KFQnbNIdI.2KYOU (password is “cisco”). Or they have a copy of the config but the password was stored in the encrypted format.
In most cases, the device was deployed a long time ago and nobody remembers the password. From time to time, I get a service call asking me to break into a Cisco router or an ASA or a PIX.