Siemens S223 User Manual

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SURPASS hiD 6615 S223/S323 R1.5 

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You can configure a password to enhance the security for Privileged EXEC Enable mode. 
To configure a password for Privileged EXEC Enable mode, use the following command. 

 PASSWORD 

Configures a password to begin Privileged EXEC En-

 mode. 

 PASSWORD 

Global 

Configures an encrypted password. 

 

 does not support encryption at default value. Therefore, it shows the 

string (or password) as it is when you use the show running-config command. In this 
case, the user’s password shown to everyone and has insecure environment. 

To encrypt the password which will be shown at running-config, you should use the ser-
vice password-encryption

 command. And to represent the string (password) is en-

crypted, input 8 before the encrypted string. 

When you use the password enable command with 8 and “the string”, you will make into 
Privileged EXEC Enable

 mode with the encrypted string. Therefore, to log in the system, 

you should do it with the encrypted string as password that you configured after 8. In 
short, according to using the 8 option or not, the next string is encrypted or not. 

The following is an example of configure the password in Privileged EXEC Enable mode 
as testpassword. 

SWITCH# configure terminal 

SWITCH(config)# passwd enable testpassword 

SWITCH(config)# 

 

The following is an example of accessing after configuring the password. 

SWITCH login: admin 

Password: 

SWITCH > enable 

Password: 

SWITCH# 

 

To delete the configured password, use the following command. 

Global 

Deletes the password. 

 

The created password can be displayed with the command, show running-config. To 
encrypt the password not to be displayed, use the following command. 

Global Encrypts 

system 

password.