Configure Cisco switch telnet login and password

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry Date Icon May 27, 2004  
Tag Icon Tagged: Cisco switch

The ability to telnet into a Cisco switch greatly simplifies remote administration of the device. This recipe describes enabling telnet logins and password protecting them.


To enable telnet logins into a Cisco switch and set the telnet password to keepout use the following commands from configuration mode:

line vty 0 15
password keepout
login

To telnet to the switch, it must have an IP address configured.

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    This would be even more useful if the person writing it assumed the user had NO knowledge of cisco switches whatsoever.

    Do the following to get up to the stage above:

    from the command window (run: cmd)

    telnet (ip address)

    (password)

    enable (to get into secret mode)

    (secret password)

    conf t (This gets you into the above mentioned configuration mode)

    line vty 0 15

    password (your new password)

    exit

    exit

    exit

    Your done!
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    You have done what?

    The switch will arrive with a serial light blue cable. Connect it to the console port at the Cisco switch, and to the serial port on a pr.

    Open a terminal session (in ZP Hyperterm), use default settings and give session any name. In that way, tou don even need an ip

    But, this is the very entry point to the switch config. Somebody has to write a long manual here!
 
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