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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Configuring Basic Settings
Configuring the Hostname, Domain Name, and Passwords
Setting the Login Password
The login password is used for Telnet access when you do not configure Telnet authentication (see the
“Configuring Authentication for CLI, and ASDM, and enable command Access” section on page 45-23
).
You also use this password when accessing the ASASM from the switch with the
session
command.
Prerequisites
Enable Telnet access according to the
“Configuring Telnet Access” section on page 45-5
To set the login password, enter the following command:
Changing the Enable Password
To change the enable password, enter the following command:
Command
Purpose
{
passwd
|
password
}
password
[
encrypted
]
Sets the login password. 9.0(1): The default password is “cisco.” 9.0(2) and
later: There is no default password.
You can enter
passwd
or
password
. The password is a case-sensitive
password of up to 16 alphanumeric and special characters. You can use any
character in the password except a question mark or a space.
The password is saved in the configuration in encrypted form, so you
cannot view the original password after you enter it. If for some reason you
need to copy the password to another ASA but do not know the original
password, you can enter the
passwd
command with the encrypted
password and the
encrypted
keyword. Normally, you only see this
keyword when you enter the
show running-config passwd
command.
Use the
no password
command to restore the password to the default
setting; in 9.0(2) and later, the
no
form of the command removes the
password.
Command
Purpose
enable
password
password
Example:
hostname(config)# passwd Pa$$w0rd
Changes the enable password, which lets you enter privileged EXEC mode.
By default, the enable password is blank.
The
password
argument
is a
case-sensitive password of up to
16 alphanumeric and special characters. You can use any character in the
password except a question mark or a space.
This command changes the password for the highest privilege level. If you
configure local command authorization, you can set enable passwords for
each privilege level from 0 to 15.
The password is saved in the configuration in encrypted form, so you
cannot view the original password after you enter it. Enter the
enable
password
command without a password to set the password to the default,
which is blank.
Summary of Contents for 5505 - ASA Firewall Edition Bundle
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Page 61: ...P A R T 1 Getting Started with the ASA ...
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Page 219: ...P A R T 2 Configuring High Availability and Scalability ...
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Page 403: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Interfaces ...
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Page 533: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Objects and Access Lists ...
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Page 601: ...P A R T 2 Configuring IP Routing ...
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Page 745: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Network Address Translation ...
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Page 845: ...P A R T 2 Configuring AAA Servers and the Local Database ...
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Page 981: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Access Control ...
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Page 1061: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Service Policies Using the Modular Policy Framework ...
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Page 1093: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Application Inspection ...
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Page 1191: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Unified Communications ...
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Page 1333: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Connection Settings and QoS ...
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Page 1475: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Modules ...
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Page 1549: ...P A R T 2 Configuring VPN ...
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Page 1965: ...P A R T 2 Configuring Logging SNMP and Smart Call Home ...
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