How to Configure Password on CISCO Router

Published: 21 March 2021
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The first time that you log in to your switch through the console, you have to use the default username and password, which is cisco. You are then prompted to enter and configure a new password for the Cisco account. Password complexity is enabled by default. If the password that you choose is not complex enough, you are prompted to create another password.

Since passwords are used to authenticate users accessing the device, simple passwords are potential security hazards. Therefore, password complexity requirements are enforced by default and may be configured as necessary.

This article provides instructions on how to define basic password settings, line password, enable password, service password recovery, password complexity rules on the user accounts, and password aging settings on your switch through the Command Line Interface (CLI).
Passwords are used to restrict access to a CISCO router. Passwords can be given to the virtual terminal lines and the console line. Moreover, password can be set privileged EXEC mode. This page will provide the information to set up CISCO router password to virtual terminal lines, console lines and privileged mode. Even more, you will learn how to encrypt the password also.


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