Creating encrypted password [7:4932]

Group, Cab someone tell me why I could not created and encrypted password for user "engineer"? I pasted the command output below. Thanks Router(config)#username engineer password 7 cisco Invalid encrypted password: cisco Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=4932

Re: Creating encrypted password [7:4932]

When you use "7" in the command, you're telling it that you're sending it a hidden/encrypted password after the 7, of which "cisco" is not. The IOS knows it isn't encrypted, because it's the wrong length. If you want to use cisco as the password and 7 in the command line, you need to put the enc

Re: Creating encrypted password [7:4932]

I found out that for this command to work you need two things: First enable password encryption using the command "service password-encryption Second you need to write the unencrypted password immediately after the "7" Thanks Lw username engineer password 7cisco ""Brad McConnell"" wrote in me