Is the password encrypted? If so, the then what you see in the config is the 
encrypted password, not the password itself...

Dale
[=`)

>From: Marshal Schoener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Marshal Schoener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Telnet password
>Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 00:06:00 +0800
>
>I'm telnetting into a router using a password that I can't find anywhere 
>:-)
>
>I look at the running-config, and see 'line vty 0 4'
>password (password)...
>login
>
>However, this isn't the password that I use to telnet in, and it doesn't
>work if
>I try it!!!  Can anyone help me to understand this :-)
>I would like to change the password used to telnet in, but I just can't
>figure
>this out...
>Thanks a million in advance.
>
>
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