Category: You've Asked for It

Analyzing Google query strings that brought visitors to my blog (StatCounter is an excellent free tool to do this job), I usually find interesting (often repeating) queries that are not yet answered in my blog. Obviously there are not too many good answers on other web sites, otherwise Google users would probably not click on a hit on the second or third page (where my blog usually appears for more generic queries).

So, to help my fellow networking engineers, I've decided to start a series of "You've asked for it" articles answering the questions that brought many of you to my site in the first place (and, don't forget, you can always send me an interesting question with the Send a message link on my bio page.

As I get a lot of hits from Google refering to local login, here's the whole story: Cisco IOS supports local username/password based authentication (almost) forever (it's been there even before the AAA architecture). To change from simple password-based authentication to username+password based on, use login local configuration command on console and/or VTY lines. The local usernames and passwords are defined with the username configuration command.