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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 is used. The other three are used to configure a password when user mode is accessed either through the console port, through the auxiliary port, or via Telnet. Enable Passwords You can set the enable passwords from global configuration mode like this: Router(config)#enable ? last-resort Define enable action if no TACACS servers respond password Assign the privileged level password secret Assign the privileged level secret use-tacacs Use TACACS to check enable passwords The following points describe the enable password parameters: Last-resort Allows you to still enter the router if you set up authentication through a TACACS server and it’s not avail