{"id":39,"date":"2004-11-14T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T20:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=39"},"modified":"2005-08-23T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T17:13:12","slug":"breaking-into-a-pix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2004\/11\/14\/breaking-into-a-pix\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking into the PIX&#8230; again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I&#8217;m off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tech-recipes.com\/cisco_firewall_tips639.html\">reset the password on a Cisco PIX<\/a> for Dillon Supply.  This was done a few months ago by a contractor at the Inflow data center while I walked him through it on the phone (I was in St. Louis) but alas he did not use the <b>write mem<\/b> command when he was done.    <\/p>\n<p>So this Friday I was trying to perform a certificate request for the PIX that failed and in order to save the existing certificates I had to run a <b>reload<\/b> without writing to memory.  Once that was done the password reverted to the old one that no one at Dillon Supply knows.  How&#8217;s that for project management.  Mr. Sylvain Fournier, now residing in France, didn&#8217;t even bother to take the responsibility of knowing the password for the companies firewall.  And they praised the guy.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry though folks, I&#8217;ve acquired a $15 USB to Serial converter to use on the laptop you provided that does not have a serial port and I&#8217;ve installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarwinds.net\/Tools\/Free_tools\/TFTP_Server\/\">Solarwinds TFTP server<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hilgraeve.com\/htpe\/\">Hyperterminal Private Edition<\/a> (to send break commands) and I will now once again break into the PIX and reset the password to the factory default.  This time I will <b>write mem<\/b> and put this issue to rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I&#8217;m off to reset the password on a Cisco PIX for Dillon Supply. This was done a few months ago by a contractor at the Inflow data center while I walked him through it on the phone (I was in St. Louis) but alas he did not use the write mem command when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2004\/11\/14\/breaking-into-a-pix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breaking into the PIX&#8230; again.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Once again I&#039;m off to reset the password on a Cisco PIX for Dillon Supply. 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