[ietf78-tech] Device access

[Chris Elliott]

All,

I am encouraging all of you to use personal logins to the devices on our
network. I will be managing the logins on all the Cisco boxes--the switches
and AP's. To define a login, if you don't already have one, or are unsure if
you have one, or if you have forgotten your password, please do the
following:

Log into the first NOC switch (noc1-sw, 130.129.1.24) using the admin user.
If you don't know what the password for admin is, please ask.

Once you're logged in, you can check to see if your login already exists by
doing the following (in green):

noc1-sw#sho run | inc <user>

Substituting your login for <user>. This will return something like:

username chelliot privilege 15 secret 5 $1$4.PR$4wTEaaG.G2z0wIo4scXqqY11

To add your own login, or to change your password, do the following:

noc1-sw#config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line.  End with CNTL/Z.
noc1-sw(config)#username <user> priv 15 secret <password>

Substituting your login and password for <user> and <password>. The password
should not start with a single number followed by a blank as Cisco uses that
convention to distinguish different password encryption algorithms.

Finish up by typing:

noc1-sw(config)#exit
noc1-sw#exit
Connection to 130.129.1.24 closed.

Then use ssh to access this device using your new login.

If it works to your satisfaction, email me your username and I'll copy it to
all other devices. Not that I will not know your password, just the
encrypted string that the device stores.

Thanks!
Chris.

-- 
Chris Elliott
chelliot at pobox.com
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