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Chapter 4
Introduction to the Cisco IOS
There you have it! The passwords will now be encrypted. You just encrypt
the passwords and then turn off the command. By typing the show running-
config
command, you can see the enable password and the line passwords
are all encrypted:
Router#sh run
Building configuration...
[output cut]
!
enable secret 5 $1$rFbM$8.aXocHg6yHrM/zzeNkAT.
enable password 7 0835434A0D
!
[output cut]
!
line con 0
password 7 111D160113
login
line aux 0
password 7 071B2E484A
login
line vty 0 4
password 7 0835434A0D
login
line vty 5 197
password 7 09463724B
login
!
end
Router#
Banners
A good reason for having a banner is to add a security notice to users dialing
into your internetwork. You can set a banner on a Cisco router so that when
either a user logs into the router or an administrator telnets into the router,
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