Category: Networking

Hiding a password on Cisco equipment

This procedure is not mandatory. However, if you want to hide the passwords when you view the configuration, you must run several commands.

To encrypt the password, you must enter the global configuration mode:

Cisco>enable
Cisco#configure terminal

Specify that we want to use the password encryption service:

Cisco(config)#service password-encryption

To cancel password encryption:

Cisco(config)#no service password-encryption