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| Authentication Commands
User Accounts and Privilege Levels
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â—† The encrypted password is required for compatibility with legacy
password settings (i.e., plain text or encrypted) when reading the
configuration file during system bootup or when downloading the
configuration file from a TFTP server. There is no need for you to
manually configure encrypted passwords.
EXAMPLE
Console(config)#enable password level 15 0 admin
Console(config)#
RELATED COMMANDS
enable (693)
authentication enable (814)
username This command adds named users, requires authentication at login,
specifies or changes a user's password (or specify that no password is
required), or specifies or changes a user's access level. Use the no form to
remove a user name.
SYNTAX
username name {access-level level | nopassword |
password {0 | 7} password}
no username name
name - The name of the user. (Maximum length: 32 characters,
case sensitive. Maximum users: 16)
access-level level - Specifies the user level.
The device has two predefined privilege levels:
0:NormalExec,15: Privileged Exec.
nopassword - No password is required for this user to log in.
{0 | 7} - 0 means plain password, 7 means encrypted password.
password password - The authentication password for the user.
(Maximum length: 32 characters plain text or encrypted, case
sensitive)
DEFAULT SETTING
The default access level is Normal Exec.
The factory defaults for the user names and passwords are:
COMMAND MODE
Global Configuration
Table 72: Default Login Settings
username access-level password
guest
admin
0
15
guest
admin
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