Changing The Login Password; Changing The Enable Password; Changing The Maintenance Partition Passwords - Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Configuration Manual

Changing the Passwords

Changing the Login Password

By default, the login password is "cisco."
To change the password, enter the following command in privileged mode:
FWSM/contexta(config)# {passwd | password} password
You can enter passwd or password. The password is a case-sensitive password of up to 16 alphanumeric
and special characters. You can use any character in the password except a question mark or a space.
The password is saved in the configuration in encrypted form, so you cannot view the original password
after you enter it. Use the clear password command to restore the password to the default setting.

Changing the Enable Password

By default, the enable password is blank.
To change enable the password, enter the following command in privileged mode:
FWSM/contexta(config)# enable password password
The password is a case-sensitive password of up to 16 alphanumeric and special characters. You can use
any character in the password except a question mark or a space.
This command changes the password for the highest privilege level. If you configure local command
authorization, you can set enable passwords for each privilege level from 0 to 15. (See the
Command Authorization" section on page 12-10
The password is saved in the configuration in encrypted form, so you cannot view the original password
after you enter it. Enter the enable password command without a password to set the password to the
default, which is blank.

Changing the Maintenance Partition Passwords

The maintenance partition is valuable for troubleshooting. For example, you can install new software to
an application partition, reset passwords, or show crash dump information from the maintenance
partition. You can only access the maintenance partition by sessioning into the FWSM. (See the
"Sessioning and Logging into the Firewall Services Module" section on page
The maintenance partition has two user levels with different access privileges:
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root—Lets you configure the network partition parameters, upgrade the software images on the
application partitions, change the guest account password, and enable or disable the guest account.
The default password is "cisco."
guest—Lets you configure the network partition parameters and show crash dump information.
The default password is "cisco."
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