Cisco SCE 1000 2xGBE User's Guide download pdf (Page 134)

Chapter 5 Configuration and Management

Entering and Exiting Global Configuration Mode

SCE 1000 2xGBE Release 2.0.10 User Guide

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Passwords

Cisco CLI passwords are an access-level authorization setting, not individual user passwords. All

Admin users, for example, log in with the same password. This means that the system does not

identify you as an individual, but as a user with certain privileges.

Passwords are needed for all authorization levels in order to prevent unauthorized users from

accessing the SCE 1000. It is highly recommended that you change the default password upon

initial installation, and that you change the passwords periodically to secure the system.

Note

The default password for all levels is “cisco”.

When a telnet user logs on, he sees only a Password: prompt, no logo is displayed. This provides

extra security by not revealing the system identity to users that do not know the password.

Password guidelines:

• Password length must be between 4 and 100 characters long.

• Passwords can contain any visible keyboard character.

• Passwords must begin with a letter.

• Passwords cannot contain spaces.

• Passwords are case-sensitive.

Users with Admin or higher authorization level can view the configured passwords using the

show running-config or the show startup-config commands. Therefore, if you want passwords to

remain completely confidential, you must activate the encryption feature, described in Encryption

(on page 5-18)

Requiring Passwords

The default password is either of the following:

• pcube

• cisco

Use the enable password command to configure your installation to require a password for

user level access, and to change the default password for the admin and root levels. Use the [no]

form of the command to restore the password of a specific level to the default state.

To require a password at the User level:

Step 1 At the SCE 1000> prompt, to access the Admin authorization level, type enable and

press Enter.

The Password: prompt appears

Step 2 Type pcube (the default password for the Admin level) and press Enter.

The SCE 1000# prompt appears.

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