Another addition to my posts about Cisco ASA 5510 tasks. The following is to change the password for a user within the device. Simple and straight forward – but ensure that you backup your running configuration before making any system changes.
enable config t username USER password PASSWORDHERE privilege 0 write mem
Here’s a good article which covers Cisco Privileges.
Though us network nerds may work in a terminal most of the day – our workstations are largely Windows based. This is a quick guide to backing up a Cisco device configuration to a Windows machine. It’s fairly simple:
Download WinAgents TFTP Server Manager and run through the installation process. This will setup a tftp server on that Windows machine that you will use to direct the configuration to. Once installed, connect to the local server.
Once configuration is complete and you are connected to your machine – find the IP of the Windows workstation (we’ll need this in a moment).
Now, connect to the Cisco device. Login and also enter enable mode:
enable
Once in enable mode, use the copy configuration using the following command:
copy startup-config tftp
You will be prompted for the server address. Type in the Windows workstation IP address here.
You will also be prompted for the name of which to save. I usually save this as the date and time of the configuration and save it in a folder for the device’s configuration backups – so do whatever method works for you.
Press ENTER and the transfer will begin. You should notice statistics on transfer are shown.
It’s that simple. I’ll use this post as a reference to some more in-depth Cisco blogs in the future – but wanted to state it in one place vs. repeating it in each post. Thanks for reading.