Monday, 17 April 2023

Cisco Router password security basics

In the below screenshot we have created two simple passwords for two different modes. The highlighted yellow is a password for user mode whereas the password in green is for privileged mode. Following on from creating the passwords good practice is to encrypt the passwords


Now when we run the show running-config command we don't see the passwords in plain text but in an encrypted format.



Here are a couple of video walkthroughs configuring what was previously mentioned. 

Video1

Video2

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