How to configure enable/secret password of cisco router step by step guide

How to configure enable/secret password of cisco router

In this article we learn how to setting enable password of the cisco router. Different types of password you can configured to access the cisco router such as enable password ,secret password, for ssh connection and so on.

Set up enable password of cisco router for demo

To secure a router we configure enable password. It uses to move the mode from user execution mode to privileged execution mode and as well as we can access global configuration mode using enable password.

To configure the enable password of the cisco router we execute the  below command .

Router>en

Router#conf t

Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.

Router(config)#enable password cisco

After execution the above command we create the enable password of the cisco router which is stored in the config file of the router. To find the line from the config file we execute the below command.

Router>en

Password:

Router#show running-config | include enable

enable password cisco

We saw fom the above output that the stored password is in plain text it is not a encrypted format .anyone can read the the stored password from the config file because it is in plain text.

To overcome the problem create a new type of password called secret password .it is not in plain text it is stored in the configuration file in encrypted format which is not readable from anyone .

 Set up secret password of cisco router for demo

To overcome the problem create a new type of password called secret password .it is not in plain text it is stored in the configuration file in encrypted format which is not readable from anyone . when we configure secret password it take over the responsibility to move the mode from user execution mode to privileged execution mode. To configure the secret password we execute the below command.

Router#conf t

Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.

Router(config)#enable password cisco

Router(config)#enable secret cisco123

Note: you can not use same password in the secret password which you use to create enable password.

To view the configuration file we execute the below command.

Router>en

Password:

Router#

Router#show running-config | include enable

enable secret 5 $1$mERr$5.a6P4JqbNiMX01usIfka/

enable password cisco

How to configure enable/secret password of cisco router

In next article we learn how to reset enable password of the cisco router with practical demotration.

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