Specifying Line-Level Passwords - HP ProCurve 8100fl Series Installation And Getting Started Manual

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Test all new passwords before saving the running configuration to the Startup
configuration file.
After password protecting access to the CLI, you can still access the Series
8100fl Switch without a password by connecting a terminal line configured
without password protection. To password protect terminal lines from users
connecting with Telnet or SSH, see

Specifying Line-level Passwords

The ProCurve Switch 8100fl supports up to 10 vty remote connections for
which you can assign line-level passwords. To prevent unauthorized access,
it is recommended you assign line-level password protection to all the terminal
lines that you configure.
To add password protection to each terminal (or console) line:
1. From Configuration mode, enter the following command:
2. Enter the following command to configure a password to the line that you
When you enter this setting, it will appear as a line in the running
configuration as follows:
enable secret 0 mypassword
where 0 indicates that the password is not encrypted.
Switch 8100fl(config)#line vty 0
where 0 represents the line number of the vty terminal line connection.
have specified:
Switch 8100fl(config-line)#password <password>
By default the password you enter will be encrypted to prevent it from
being displayed in the configuration file output.
For example:
To create an encrypted password called "mysecretpassword" enter;
Switch 8100fl(config-line)#password mysecretpassword
When you enter the password and then enter show running-config, this
will appear as a line in the running configuration as follows:
password 5 $1$ZyK.$8NHx2DJBsiGQyhTBmUakz1
Getting Started With Switch Configuration
Setting Up Passwords
"Specifying Line-level Passwords".
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