There are five passwords used to secure your Cisco routers: console, auxiliary, telnet (VTY),enable password, and enable secret. Just as you learned earlier in the chapter, the first two passwords are used to set your enable password that’s used to secure privileged mode. This will prompt a user for a password when the enable command […]
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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Howto setup cisco router Hostnames
You can set the identity of the router with the hostname command. This is only locally significant,which means that it has no bearing on how the router performs name lookups or how the router works on the internetwork.
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Securing Cisco Routers by Disabling Unused Services
On Cisco routers, a whole bunch of services come enabled by default.your first order of operation would be to ensure that the all unused services are disabled. Now we will see how to disable some services on cisco router for security purpose.
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Howto make partition changes visible to the kernel without reboot
Many system administrators may be in the habit of re-booting their systems to make partition changes visible to the kernel. With Linux, this is not usually necessary. The partprobe command, from the parted package, informs the kernel about changes to partitions.
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