How to enable password in Cisco and Brocade switches/routers.

1.    How to enable password in Cisco and Brocade switches/routers.

A.   Enabling password in cisco switches

To go configure terminal mode and use following commands to enable a password.

Router(config)# enable password PASSWORD123

Router(config)#exit or Router(config)# end

Router# wr or Router(config)# wr me

Enable password Password123 command sets password PASSWORD123 to your device

Exit or end command is used to take you back from configure mode to privileged mode where you can save the changes. All the changes are saved in privileged mode.

At last we run wr command with is used for saving the current configuration or changes which we have made in current session.

B.   Enabling password In Brocade’s switch and routers.

All the CLI prompt, enter following command to change to the privileged exec mode

Device> enable

Device# Configure terminal

Device(Config)# enable super-user-password Hemant

NOTE – you must set the Super user password before you can set other types of passwords.

Device(config)# enable port-config-password Rajan

Device(config)# enable read-only-password Sachin

after running these command you will need to save the current configuration in the switch memory. for saving the same you will have to come in privileged mode using exit command or end command.'

Device(config)# exit

Device# wr me

wr me command is used to save the changed or modified settings/configurations. wr me stands for write me.