Thank you.

Jon,

I entered a user name and password. Puttying in to the remote router asks for a password. The above password associated with the username did not work. After using Putty to access the router, the username was not asked. Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Hi

You need to tell the router that you want to use local authentication ie.

router(config)# aaa authentication login default local

Jon

Jon,

Thanks. I selected line authentication option, thus using the Vty passwd to login using SSH/Putty. Do you know how to configure 3Des for encrypting the passwords in the router?

Said

Create the username with the secret keyword rather than password which will encrypt the password using MD5

username privelege secret

IF your IOS does not support the secret option, you can use service password-encryption in the global config which will also encrypt the password. This encryption though is very weak and can be cracked using any available password cracking tools

HTH

Narayan