need to change username and password

Question

Hello,

i want to remove our old local username and re add it using secret for the password so its hashed.

for example

current setup

username ciscojohnes privilege 15 password 7 978613513764641616574614sd6as45d (made up username and password)

then i want to re add it so its hashed

conf t

username ciscojohnes privilege 15 secret secretpassword

however i cannot get the confirm to work when i run it as a script. it is like it is not accepting the spacebar as an acknowledgement for the confirm.

CourtesyIT · Answer

some cisco devices require a [confirm] when adding or deleting username stuff.  I think more deleting, but just a habit of mine with it comes to Username.

jgutter · Answer

That worked perfectly. unsure why it had to have that many blank entries but it worked.

Thank you.

CourtesyIT · Answer

Try the below script. You will need to do it by hand on the first device in order to get the hash, but recommend you add in the plain text and let the system hash it out for you.

Config t

username EmergencyAccount privilege 5 secret 5 [Hased Password]

enable secret 5 [Hashed Password]

end

----------- Break

Test new password

----------- Break

Config t

no username ciscojohnes

end

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