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enable password
Description
The enable password command is used to set or change the password for
users to access Privileged EXEC Mode from User EXEC Mode. To remove the
password, please use no enable password command. This command uses the
symmetric encryption.
Syntax
enable password { [ 0 ] password | 7 encrypted-password }
no enable password
Parameter
0 —— Specify the encryption type. 0 indicates that an unencrypted password
will follow. By default, the encryption type is 0.
password —— Super password, a string from 1 to 31 alphanumeric characters
or symbols. The password is case sensitive, allows digits, English letters (case
sensitive), underlines and sixteen special characters ( !$%'()*,-./[]{|} ). By default,
it is empty.
7 —— Indicates a symmetric encrypted password with fixed length will follow.
encrypted-password —— A symmetric encrypted password with fixed length,
which you can copy from another switch’s configuration file. After the encrypted
password is configured, you should use the corresponding unencrypted
password if you re-enter this mode.
Command Mode
Global Configuration Mode
User Guidelines
If the password you configured here is unencrypted and the global encryption
function is enabled in service password-encryption
, the password in the
configuration file will be displayed in the symmetric encrypted form.
Example
Set the super password as “admin” and unencrypted to access Privileged EXEC
Mode from User EXEC Mode:
TL-SG2424(config)#enable password 0 admin
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