Follow this quick tutorial to enable SSH access instead of Telnet and create a unprivileged user on Cisco IOS.
1. Enter in “Privilege EXEC” mode :
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enable |
2. Enter in “Global Configuration” mode :
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conf t |
3. Use the following commands to enable SSH, generate RSA keys and create the username/password :
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hostname <HOSTNAME> domain-name <FQDN.DOMAIN.TLD> ip ssh time-out 90 ip ssh authentication-retries 3 line vty 0 4 transport input ssh crypto key generase rsa modulus 1024 aaa new-model username <USERNAME> password <PASSWORD> |
4. Write changes to memory :
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wr mem |