CLI Reference Guide

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:

T1500-28PCT(config)#enable password 0 admin