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Global Configuration commands
5
Encrypting a Password
To encrypt a password:
1. Enable password encryption and provide the passphrase required for encrypting the
passwords.
RFController (config)#service password-encryption secret 2 Brocade
RFController (config)#username Jiri password admin
2. On completion of the above step, all the passwords, crypto keys, shared secrets etc are
displayed in an encrypted format in the running/startup configuration.
RFController(config)#show run
!
! configuration of Mobility RFS6000 Controller version 4.2.1.0
!
version 1.1
!
!
aaa authentication login default none
service prompt crash-info
!
username admin password 1 8e67bb26b358e2ed20fe552ed6fb832f397a507d
username admin privilege superuser
username operator password 1 fe96dd39756ac41b74283a9292652d366d73931f
username Jiri password 1 399f01e13e372ba2dc02f37d869021873e60aa85
3. The password in the above running configuration is displayed in an encrypted format even
though it was entered as plain text in Step 1.