Siemens S223 Password for Privileged Exec Mode, Command Mode Description Passwd enable Password

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SURPASS hiD 6615 S223/S323 R1.5

4.1.2Password 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	Mode	Description
passwd enable PASSWORD		Configures a password to begin Privileged EXEC En-
	Global	able mode.
passwd enable 8 PASSWORD		Configures an encrypted 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-configcommand. 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-encryptioncommand. 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	Mode	Description
no passwd enable	Global	Deletes the password.

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	Mode	Description
service password-encryption	Global	Encrypts system password.

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