stuck setting privilege level

inscom.brigadeinscom.brigade Member Posts: 400 ■■■□□□□□□□
I keep trying to set privilege level but when I test it the password does not work.

here is the config i have entered.

R1>ena
R1#conf t
R1(config)#enable secret level 15 5 cisco123
R1(config)#enable secret level 4 0 ping
R1(config)#exit
R1#exit
R1>
R1>enable
password: cisco123
R1#exit
R1>
R1>enable
password: ping
password:

I am not sure what is wrong with my config for level 4

Comments

  • lurker53lurker53 Member Posts: 7 ■□□□□□□□□□
    enable <level 0-15> does the trick

    In your case,
    R1>enable 4
    Password: ping

    should work
  • inscom.brigadeinscom.brigade Member Posts: 400 ■■■□□□□□□□
    I can get the privilege level 15 to work, but all others don’t I tried in a couple different devices so it must be me.

    This is what I typed in:

    Router(config)#hostname r1
    r1(config)#ena
    r1(config)#enable se
    r1(config)#enable secret le
    r1(config)#enable secret level 10 0 ping
    r1(config)#enable secret level 15 cisco
    r1(config)#exit
    r1#
    r1>ena
    r1>enable
    Password:
    Password:
    Password:
    r1#conf t
    Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
    r1(config)#en
    r1(config)#ena
    r1(config)#enable se
    r1(config)#enable secret le
    r1(config)#enable secret level 8
    r1>enable
    Password:
    Password:
    Password:
    % Password: timeout expired!
    % Bad secrets

    nothing but level 15 works.
    I don't find what I am doing wrong, the poster above suggests exactly what I did. What am i not seeing here?
  • lurker53lurker53 Member Posts: 7 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Seems to work for me, the red text has been added for the sake of clarifying the post, and is not part of the normal output:


    R3(config)#enable secret priv15 <--- This is my privilege 15 password, IIRC "level 15" is already the default variable for the command so you don't need to put it in
    R3(config)#enable secret level 10 priv10 <--- This is my privilege 10 password
    R3(config)#exit
    R3#disable
    R3>
    *Dec 12 02:41:44.279: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console
    R3>enable
    Password: priv15
    R3#sh privilege
    Current privilege level is 15
    R3#disable
    R3>enable
    Password: priv10
    Password:
    Password:
    % Bad secrets


    R3>
    R3>
    R3>enable 10
    Password: priv10
    R3#sh privilege
    Current privilege level is 10
    R3#


    I hope this helps.
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