Managing Network Devices
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Encrypting Your Passwords
Only the enable secret password is encrypted by default. You need to man-
ually configure the usermode and enable passwords.
Notice that you can see all the passwords except the enable secret when
performing a show running-config on a router:
Router#sh run
[output cut]
!
enable secret 5 $1$rFbM$8.aXocHg6yHrM/zzeNkAT.
enable password todd1
!
[output cut]
line con 0
password todd1
login
line aux 0
password todd
login
line vty 0 4
password todd2
login
line vty 5 197
password todd2
login
!
end
Router#
To manually encrypt your passwords, use the service password-
encryption
command. Here is an example of how to perform manual pass-
word encryption:
Router#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with
CNTL/Z.
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