Password For Privileged Exec Mode - Siemens S223 User Manual

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Password for Privileged EXEC 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
passwd enable PASSWORD
passwd enable 8 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 shown to everyone and has insecure 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 en-
crypted, 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 configure 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 the password.
SWITCH login: admin
Password:
SWITCH > enable
Password:
SWITCH#
To delete the configured password, use the following command.
Command
no passwd enable
The created password can be displayed with the command, show running-config. To
encrypt the password not to be displayed, use the following command.
Command
service password-encryption
Mode
Configures a password to begin Privileged EXEC En-
able mode.
Global
Configures an encrypted password.
Mode
Global Deletes the password.
Mode
Global Encrypts system password.
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