User Manual
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4.1.3
Configuring System Login Information
4.1.3.1
Password for Privileged EXEC Enable Mode
You can configure a password to enhance the security for
Privileged EXEC Enable
mode.
To configure a password for
Privileged EXEC Enable
mode, use the following command.
Command
Mode
Description
passwd enable
PASSWORD
Global
Configures a password to begin
Privileged EXEC Ena-
ble
mode.
passwd enable 8
PASSWORD
Configures an encrypted password.
password enable
does not support encryption at default value. Therefore it shows the
string (or password) as it is when you use the
show running-config
command. In this
case
, the user’s password is shown to everyone and has unsecured environment.
To encrypt the password which will be shown at running-config, you should use the
ser-
vice password-encryption
command. And to represent the string (password) is encrypt-
ed, input
8
before the encrypted string.
When you use the
password enable
command with
8
and
“the string”, you will make into
Privileged EXEC Enable
mode with the encrypted string. Therefore, to log in the system,
you should do it with the encrypted string as password that you configured after
8
. In
short, according to using the
8
option or not, the next string is encrypted or not.
The following is an example of configuring the password in
Privileged EXEC Enable
mode as
testpassword
.
SWITCH#
configure terminal
SWITCH(config)#
passwd enable
testpassword
SWITCH(config)#
The following is an example of accessing after configuring a password.
SWITCH login:
admin
Password:
SWITCH>
enable
Password:
SWITCH#
To delete the configured password, use the following command.
Command
Mode
Description
no passwd enable
Global
Deletes the password.
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