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Chapter 5
Configuring the Management Interface and Security
About Passwords
Cisco CLI passwords are an access-level authorization setting, not individual user passwords. All Admin
users, for example, log in with the same password. This means that the system does not identify you as
an individual, but as a user with certain privileges.
Passwords are needed for all authorization levels to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the SCE
platform. It is highly recommended that you change the default password upon initial installation, and
that you change the passwords periodically to secure the system.
The default password for all levels is "Cisco".
Note
When a telnet user logs on, he sees only a Password: prompt, no logo is displayed. This provides extra
security by not revealing the system identity to users that do not know the password.
Password guidelines:
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Users with Admin or higher authorization level can view the configured passwords using the show
running-config or the show startup-config commands. Therefore, if you want passwords to remain
completely confidential, you must activate the encryption feature, described in
Encryption, page
Changing Your Password
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Password length must be between 4 and 100 characters long.
Passwords can contain any visible keyboard character.
Passwords must begin with a letter.
Passwords cannot contain spaces.
Passwords are case-sensitive.
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How to Change Your Password, page 5-48
Verifying that the Password has been Successfully Changed, page 5-48
Cisco SCE 2000 and SCE 1000 Software Configuration Guide
Managing Passwords
How to Enable Password
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