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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.
Configures a password to begin Privileged EXEC Ena-
ble mode.
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.
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